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Stated Meeting, June 2Qth y 1873. 



Present, 13 members. 



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



Letters accepting membership were received from Sir 

 Wm. Thompson, dated 35 Wimpole St., W. London, May 

 8th, 1873; Mr. P.. L. Sclater, dated Zoological Society, 

 London, May 20th, 1873: Prof. Giovanni Capellini, dated 

 Museo di Geologia, Bologna, May 20th, 1873 ; Prof. Luigi 

 Palmieri, dated Direzione dell, Osservatorio Yesuviano, 

 Naples, May 12th, 1873 ; and J. B. De Rossi, dated Rome 

 May 10th, 1873. 



Letters acknowledging the receipt of the Society's Publi- 

 cations were received from the II. Society at Edinburgh, 

 March 18th, (XIV, i, ii, iii, 83 to .8(3,) ; Dr. F. Flugel, Leip- 

 sig, November 1, 1872 (85, 87,) ; the Natural History Society 

 at Emden, October 1, 1872 (86, 87,); the Imp. Acad, at 

 Vienna, October 4th, 1872 (XIV, iii, 87, ; P. Tunner, 

 Leoben, September 20th, 1872 (87) ; Dr. Rokitansky, Vienna, 

 October 12th, 1872 (87). 



Letters of envoy were received from the Society at 

 Erlangen, May 2d, and the Society at Batavia, January 20th, 

 1871, and December 30th, 1871. 



A letter from the Grosvenor Library, BuiFalo, Xew York,. 

 dated May 31st, 1873, respecting publications, was referred 

 to the Library Committee, with power to take order. 



Dr. Horn offered for publication in the Proceedings a 

 paper entitled " A Synopsis of the Ilisteridae of the United 

 States," with one octavo plate, and gave a verbal description 

 of the paper, as one of the series bringing up the Natural 

 History of the family to the present date. On motion of 

 Dr. LeConte, it was referred to the Secretaries, with power to 

 furnish the required plate. 



Mr. Lesley described a map of the Western Outcrop of the 

 East Kentucky Coal Field, from the surveys of Mr. Joseph 

 Lesley, assistant on the State Survey in 1858 and 1859, and 

 offered it for publication in the Proceedings. On motion 



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