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purchase of other trees ; and such other trees as well as oaks 

 may be distributed not only to other parks, but to city 

 squares, and in exchange with other public nurseries, and 

 towards planting the grounds of institutions of learning and 

 charity, to any extent that will not impair the primary pur- 

 pose of said agreement of March, 1870. 

 And the meeting was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, Dec. ls<, 1876. 



Present, 13 members. 

 Mr. Eli K. Price, in the Chair. 



Letters of acknowledg-ment were received from the So- 

 cieties at Gottingen July 15, (Proc. Vol. XIV) and Emden 

 (94), and the Smithsonian Institution, July 22d (97). 



A letter of envoy was received from the Society at Emden. 



Donations for the Library were reported from the Acade- 

 mies and Societies at St. Petersburg, Berlin, Moscow, Emden, 

 St. Gallen, Cherbourg, and Rotterdam ; the Revue Politique, 

 and London Nature ; the Royal Astronomical, Geographical 

 and Zoological Societies ; the Museums at Cambridge, and 

 Albany; New York State Library; Poughkeepsie Society of 

 Natural Science ; Professor E. D. Cope ; and the Brazilian 

 Centennial Commissioners. 



On the report of the curator present of an interview with 

 the superintendent of the mint, it was resolved that the re- 

 port be adopted and the curators be requested to take such 

 further measures as may be necessary for the placing of the 

 Society's collection of coins under the care of the officers of 

 the United States Mint. 



Professor Hart read a paper entitled, " The Fairy Folk, or 

 Fairy Lore of Spencer and Shakespeare," giving the romance 

 or latin origin of the words fairy, &c., in contrast with the teu- 

 tonic origin of the words elf, &c., assigning different char- 

 acters to this species of imaginary creatures, support- 

 ing the distinction by numerous quotations, and the recital 



