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Stated Meeting^ January 19^A, 1877. 



Present, 19 members. 



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



A letter of envoy was received from the Imp. Botanical 

 Gardens of St. Petersburg, Aug. 15, 1876. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Mining 

 Bureau at Melbourne ; R. Acad, at Turin ; S.Vin, Fiorentino 

 of Naples; the Ulm Art Union ; R. Acad, at Brussels ; Rev. 

 Pol. and Nature ; Cobden Club ; Canadian J. of Science, To- 

 ronto ; Essex Institute ; S. N. H. Boston ; S. C. E. Boston ; 

 Hon. W. W. Crapo, of New Bedford ; Sill. Journal ; Amer. 

 Chemist ; Med. News ; A. J. Med. Sciences ; Penn Monthly ; 

 Franklin Institute; Greol. Survey of Pa ; E. D. Cope ; Ord- 

 nance Department U. S. A., and Corps of Engineers. 



No. 98 of the Proceedings just published was laid on the 

 table for the inspection of the members. 



The Secretary presented a communication entitled : On 

 the first systematic collection and discussion of the Venango 

 Co. oil wells of Western Pennsylvania, by E. S. Nettleton, 

 C. E., prepared for publication and communicated by J. F. 

 Carl], Asst. Geol. Sur. Pa. in charge of the Survey of the 

 Oil Regions. 



Gen. Kane read a description of his recent explorations 

 in Coahuila, Mexico, exhibiting photographs of Mexican 

 soldiers, and describing the movement of the Indian popula- 

 tion southward still p-oinsi: on. 



Dr. Konio; described his success in establishing a scale of 

 colorimetry for minerals containing titanic acid, &c. and ex- 

 plained his processes. 



Mr. Blodget brought to the notice of the Society the text 

 of a proposed Act of Congress ordering a new Arctic expe- 



