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thracite and bituminous slacks, with and without pitch, in 

 the coke oven. 



Mr. Briggs urged the need of circumspection in offering 

 and decreeing premiums to inventors before continuous and 

 complete success ; and instanced the use of all the anthra- 

 cite slack in the manufacturing establishments of New 

 England for the last twenty years, by a variety of methods, 

 all of them successful. In respect of the mixed anthracite 

 and bituminous slacks his experience had been that their 

 combined clinkers were so much worse than the clinkers 

 from either one separately that the mixture could not be used 

 in the fire box. 



The meeting was adjourned after scrutiny of the ballot 

 boxes by the presiding officer, who declared the following 

 persons duly elected members : 



Mr. Samuel Davenport, of Adelaide, Australia. 



Dom Pedro d'Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil. 



John F. Hartranft, Governor of Pennsylvania. 



Mr. W. Milnor Roberts, of New York. 



Mr. Aug. R. Grote, Director Mus. Buffalo 8. N. H. 



Stated Meeting, November Srd, 1876. 



Present, 13 members. 



Vice-President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Letters accepting membership were received ft-om Mr. 

 Samuel Davenport, dated Main Cent. Building, Phila., Oct. 

 26 ; Mr. A. R. Grote, dated Buffalo, New York, Oct. 26 ; 

 Mr. John Johnston, dated 812 Broadway, N. Y., Oct. 31, 

 1876. 



A letter from Professor Jos. Henry, dated Smith. Inst. 

 Washington, D. C, Oct. 27, requested a set of Transactions 

 for the Wellington Museum, in New Zealand, under the 

 charge of Dr. Hector, Director of the Geological Survey. On 

 motion the request was granted. 



Donations for the Library were received from Mr. Levi 

 Capron (Kaiticushi, Tokio, Japan) ; the Academies of Bar- 



