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Stated Meeting, November 7th, 1873. 



Present, 7 members. 



Dr. Coates in the Chair. 



Letters accepting membership were received from M. 

 Henri cle Saussure, dated Geneve, October 15, 1873 ; Mr. M. 

 H. Messchert, dated Douglassville, Berks Co., Pa., October 

 20, 1873 ; Mr. J. Blodgett Brittou, dated 339 Walnut street, 

 Philadelphia, November 1, 1873 ; and Mr. A. Loudon Snow- 

 den, dated U. S. Mint, Philadelphia, October 22, 1873. 



A letter from Mr. George A. Belcourt, pretre, was read, 

 dated Memramcook, New Brunswick, Canada, October 24, 

 1873, renewing his correspondence relating to the publica- 

 tion of his Indian Dictionary, the publication of which in 

 the Imperial Printing House at Paris, was stopped by the 

 fall of Napoleon III at Sedan. ' 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Bel- 

 gian Academy, dated Brussels, October 7, July 11, and Sep- 

 tember 1G, 1872, and April 25, 1873 (XIY, i, iii, 85, 86, 86, 

 87); and the McGill University, dated Montreal, October 14, 

 1873. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Belgian Academy, 

 May 10th, 1873, and the Bureau of Statistics, dated Stock- 

 holm, July 7, 1873. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Acade- 

 mies of Science at St. Petersburg, Berlin, Copenhagen, Bo- 

 logna, Rome and Salem ; the Institutes at Venice and Milan; 

 the Societies at Moscow, Konigsberg, Frankfort, Nuremberg, 

 Lausanne, Geneva, Lyons, Bordeaux, Liege, Copenhagen, 

 Falmouth and Montreal, the Geological Institute at Vienna, 

 Geological Commitlee at Florence ; Geological Societies at 

 London and Glasgow; the Geographical and Anthropologi- 

 cal Societies at Paris ; the London Geographical, Chemical, 

 Zoological and Antiquarian Societies ; the Society of North- 

 ern Antiquaries at Copenhagen ; the Bureau of Statistics 

 at Stockholm ; the Observatory at Brussels ; London Na- 



