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Stated Meeting, December 6th, 1873. 



Present, 13 members. 



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



A letter acknowledging diploma was received from Prof. 

 Jean Baptiste de Rossi, dated Rome, November 6, 1873. 



A circular letter was received from Dr. Leopold Just, 

 dated Carlsruhe in Baden, requesting botanists to forward 

 their memoirs published in 1873, for notice in the Botan- 

 ischer Jahresbericht. 



Donations for the Library were announced from the Royal 

 Prussian Academy , the Geographical Society and Revue 

 Politique at Paris ; London Nature ; the Royal Astronomi- 

 cal Society ; the Chief of the Observatory in the Mauritius ; 

 Yale College ; Prof. F. B. Hough, of Lowville, N. Y. ; the 

 Medical News and Library, Penn Monthly; Dr. Newberry, 

 State Geologist of Ohio ; Prof. Worthen, State Geologist of 

 Illinois ; and Col. C. G. Forshey, of New Orleans. 



The decease of Prof. F. L. Georg von Raumer, at Berlin, 

 June 14, 1873, aged 92, was reported by the Secretary. 



Dr. Brinton communicated a vocabulary of the Natchez 

 dialect of the Creek language spoken generally by the tribes 

 of the Gulf States, which he had recently obtained and in- 

 vestigated, including in it the original short vocabularies 

 of Mr. Gallatin and Air. Duponceau. 



The Annual Reports of the Treasurer and Publication 

 Committee were read. 



Pending nominations, No. 740 was read. 



Dr. LeConte obtained permission to borrow from the 

 Cabinet of the Society, a few small articles of Mexican pot- 

 tery, under the charge of the Curators. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



