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of Arts, Batavia, November 4, 1872, and the Swiss Society 

 at Bonn. 



A letter from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 

 dated Madison, November 11, 1873, offering to supply the 

 Library of this Society with State Documents published in 

 the last ten years, and with its own catalogue, was read. 



Donations to the Library were announced as received 

 from the Societies at Moscow, Fribourg, Batavia, Nijmegen, 

 and Buffalo ; the Chemical, Geological and Antiquarian 

 Societies in London ; British Association ; London Nature ; 

 Radclrffe Observatory ; Rev. Samuel Houghton ; New York 

 Historical Society; Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences, Franklin Institute, American Chemist, and Mr. Eli 

 K. Price 



A communication from Prof. Daniel Kirkwood was read, 

 dated Bloomington, Indiana, October 23, 1873, and entitled 

 " The Meteors of January 2d." 



Dr. LeConte called the attention of the members present 

 to the report of strange noises in the Rocky Mountains, 

 made in the Journal of Lewis and Clarke, apropos of the 

 communication read at the last meeting. 



Mr. Joshua Lyman, of Lenox, Mass., exhibited his im- 

 proved table-instruments for plotting and draughting with 

 equal accuracy the most accurate field-work of civil en- 

 gineers. The admiration of experts present was freely ex- 

 pressed. 



On motion of Mr. Briggs, Mr. Hilgard, of the Coast Sur- 

 vey, was appointed to prepare an obituary notice of the late 

 Joseph Saxton. 



The minutes of the last meeting of the Board of Officers 

 was read. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



