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ture ; the Revue Politique ; M. Delesse at Paris, Sig. Capel- 

 lini at Bologna ; M. Riitimeyer at Basil ; Dr. Siedenblod at 

 Stockholm ; M. Mailly at Bruxelles ; the Boston Public 

 Library ; Silliman's Journal ; the American Chemist ; Medi- 

 cal News ; Journal of Pharmacy, Penn Monthly and Prof. 

 E. D. Cope, at Philadelphia. 



The deaths of two members were announced bv the Seere- 



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tary: 



Sir Henry Holland, at London, October 28th, aged 85. 

 Joseph Saxton, at "Washington, October 26th, 1873. 



Copies of the First Part of the Society's Transactions, 

 Vol. XV, were laid on the table for inspection, before distri- 

 bution. 



The Secretary read a communication from a friend re- 

 cently returned from the "West, entitled " An Acoustic Phe- 

 nomenon of the Rocky Mountains." 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, November 21st, 1873. 



Present, 11 members. 



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



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Egyp- 

 tian Institute, dated Alexandria, June 9, 1873 ; — the Vater- 

 landische Verein, dated "Wurtemberg, June 15 (78-80, 82-88), 

 requesting the completion of their set of Proceedings A. P. 

 S. and also Transactions, and promising a full suit of the 

 V. V. publications (on motion, referred to the Publication 

 Committee) ; — the Schweizerishe Gesellschaft, dated Bonn, 

 1873 (88) ; and the Royal Observatory, at Prague, May 9, 

 1873 (XIV, iii, 87). 



Letters of envoy were received from the Batavian Society 



