66G 



24, 1877; Dr. Thos. B. Reetl, dated Philadelphia, Ajn-il 24, 

 1877 : Prof. Henry Draper, 271 Madison Avenue, New York, 

 April 24 ; Dr. Geo. R. Moorhouse, 227 South Ninth Street, 

 Philadelphia, April 25, 1877. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Im- 

 perial Russian Society (95,97) ; Imperial Central Meteorologi- 

 cal Establishment (97); and the Astronomical Societj^ at 

 Leipzig (97). 



A letter of envoy was received from the Meteorological 

 Office in London. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Berlin 

 Horticultural Union and African Exploration Society ; the 

 Vienna Anthropological Society and Geological Establish- 

 ment; the Brussels Academy, and Netherland Botanical 

 Society; Annales des Mines ; London Astronomical, Asiatic, 

 Antiquarian and Zoological Societies ; Meteorological Office, 

 and Editors of Nature; Greenwich and Radclitf Observator- 

 ies ; and the Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope ; Mr. 

 •James Young and Mr. R. Angus Smith of Edinburo;h ; the 

 Essex Institute; Silliman's Journal; Franklin Institute: 

 College of Pharmacy ; Prof. Cope and Mr. J. Meelian ; the 

 Univei'sity of Virginia ; Wisconsin Academy of Sciences ; 

 and M. Barcena of Mexico. 



The death of General Wm. A. Stok&s, at Philadelphia, 

 May 3, in the 63d year of his age, was announced by Mr. 

 Price. 



Prof. Cope exhibited and described a plaster cast of the 

 Cranial Cavity of a fossil Procamdus Occidentalism from 

 near Sante Fe, New Mexico, comparing it with the brain of 

 the llama.* 



Prof. Cope communicated a catalogue of 43 species, 

 (about 20 of them new) of living batrachia ; entitled " Syn- 

 ojisis of the cold-blooded vertebrata procured by Prof. James 

 Orton during his exjtlorations of Peru in 1876-77." Prof. 

 Orton has added greatly to the value of his catalogue by 



•This and following communications will 1)C publisliCLl in tlu' next volume 

 (XVII) and No. (KXi) of llic Proceedings. 



