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rian Academy, Munich ; Literary and Philosophical Society, 

 Mancliester; an<l Mr. Linn, De[»uty Secretary of the Com- 

 monwealth, Harrisburg, returning to the safe keeping 

 of the Library the borrowed MSS. Journal of Colonel Burd. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Royal 

 Society, New South Wales ; Royal Statistical Society, Up- 

 sal ; Observatory and Bureau of Statistics, at Stockholm; 

 Royal Society of Antiq., Copenhagen ; R. Pruss. A. Ber- 

 lin ; Ger. Geological Society, Berlin; Anthropological So- 

 ciety and Geological Institute, Vienna; Royal Bavarian 

 Academy, Munich ; Societies at Ulm and Giessen ; Royal 

 Belgian Academy, Brussels : Revue Politique ; Astronomi- 

 cal Society, Victoria Institute, and Editors of oSTature, Lon- 

 don; Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester; Phi- 

 losophical and Literary Society, Leeds ; Royal Cornwall Pol. 

 Society, Falmouth ; Massachusetts Historical Society ; D. S. 

 A. Green, Groton, Mass. ; Silliman's Journal; Franklin In- 

 stitute ; Zoological Society ; Pharmaceutical Association, 

 Philadelphia; Mr. C. A. Ashburner; Librarian of Congress; 

 U. S. Department of State; and the Wisconsin State His- 

 torical Society. 



The death of Prof. Richard Somers Smith, at the U. S. 

 Academy at Annapolis, Tuesday, January 26, 1877, aged 

 68, was announced by the Secretary. 



The death of Mr. F. B. Meek, at Washington, December 

 21, 187(3, aged 59, was announced by the Secretary. 



Prof. Cojte displayed and described some Dinosaurian re- 

 mains (skull, dental bones, &c.) obtained in his last explora- 

 tion of fresh water strata, in the far West, overlying the ma- 

 rine Cretaceous. 



Prof. Cope also communicated a paper entitled" A con- 

 tinuation of researches among the Batrachia of the Coal 

 Measures of Ohio." 



Mr. Chase communicated a note on the " Modes of central 

 force which best represent some of the most general forms of 

 chemical activity." 



Mr. Blodget read a copy of a bill offered for the conside- 



