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^Stated Meeting, April 6, 1877. 



Present 19 members. 



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



Letters accepting membership were received from E. 

 11. Von Baumhauer, Harlem, March 7, 1877 ; from C. Wm. 

 Siemens, 12 Queen Ann's Gate, Westminster, S. W., March 

 14, 1877 ; and from Mariano Barcena, dated Meteorological 

 Central Observatory, Mexico, March 25, 1877. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the 

 Academy at St. Petersburg, February 26 (62, 71, 97); Royal 

 Society of Sciences, Gottingen, February, 1877 (97); Royal 

 Library, Leipzig, February 4 (97); S. de Phy. Geneva, 

 December 1, 1876 (94, 95, XV, ii) ; Royal Danish Academy, 

 Copenhagen, March 13 (97) ; Chicago Academy of Science, 

 March 6 (Pi-oc. 16, 17, 33, 35 to 39, Vol. Ill, Vol. V, want- 

 ing 44, Vol. VIII to XIV, 78, 94, 95, 96, 98). 



Letters of envoy were received from Dr. A. Dreschler, 

 Dresden, February 11 ; Royal Academy, Vienna, September 

 29, 1876; Royal Observatory, Greenwich, March 1877; 

 Meteorological Office, London, March 1877 ; Howard Col- 

 lege Observatory, April 3; United States Lighthouse Board, 

 March 22 ; United States Xaval Observatory, January 31 ; 

 and the Department of the Interior, April 3, 1877. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Xic. Ob- 

 servatory^, St. Petersburg; Royal Danish Academy; Royal 

 Academy, Vienna ; M. Adolph Dreschler ; the Society at 

 Ulm ; Neu Lausitz. Magazin, Gorlitz ; K. H. S. Bonn ; 

 Royal Society Gottingen ; Flora Batava ; S. de Phy. and 

 M. H. de Saussure, Geneva ; Royal Academy of Lincei, 

 Rome ; Xational Library and Faculty of Medicine, Madrid ; 

 Society of the Friends of Peace at Valentia ; Central 

 Geographical Commission of Lisbon ; Portuguese Commis- 

 sioners to the Centennial ; Royal Astron. Society, Society 

 of Arts, and I^ature, London ; Lit. and P. Society, Liver- 

 pool ; Astronomical Observatory, Harvard College: Com. 

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