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Stated Meeting, May 16th, 1873. 



Present 23 members. 



Letters accepting membership were receved from George 

 F. Barker, dated University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 

 May 2d; Joseph Le Conte, and John Le Conte, dated 

 University of California, April 29th, 1873. 



Letters of envoy were received from the P. Saxon Society, 

 dated Leipsig, Dec. 1st, 1872, and the Swiss Society of Natu- 

 ral History, dated Bern, Nov. 11th, 1872. 



A letter of acknowledgment was received from the Soci- 

 ety at Bern, dated Nov. 11th, 1873, (83, 84). 



A letter requesting the completion of its set of Proceedings 

 of the American Philosophical Society, was received from 

 the Ecole des Mines, dated April 4th, 1873. 



The death of Edward King, a member of the Society, at 

 Philadelphia, May 8th, aged 79, was announced by Mr. 

 "Whitman, and on motion, Gen. Stokes was appointed to 

 prepare an Obituary Notice of the deceased. 



The death of John Stuart Mill, at Avignon, a member of 

 the Society, was announced by the Secretary. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Societies 

 at Moscow, Leipsig, Frauenfeld, Stadtamhof, Frankfort-am- 

 M., Berne, Lille, Bordeaux, Salem, Providence, and Buffalo; 



