PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. YIII. JULY— DECEMBER, 1861. No. 66. 



Stated Meeting, July 19, 1861. 



Present, seven members. 



Professor Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A letter, accepting membership, was received from Prof. 

 Andreas Wagner, dated Munich, June 1, 1861. 



Letters acknowledging the receipt and also the transmis- 

 sion of publications were received from the Horticultural So- 

 ciety at Berlin, dated Feb. 18, 1861, from the Kojal Societ}^ 

 at Gottingen, dated Oct. 6, 1860, and from the Royal Bava- 

 rian Academy at Munich, dated Dec. 20, 1860. 



Letters announcing the transmission of publications were 

 received from the Zoologico-Botanical Society at Vienna (re- 

 questing correspondence), dated April 11, 1861, from the 

 Royal Russian Academy, dated Feb. 28, 1861, from the Im- 

 perial Austrian Academy, dated Feb. 26, and April 16, 1861, 

 and from the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of 

 Domestic Industry, dated Providence, July 2, 1861. The last 

 also calling attention to a notice of the offer of premiums by 

 the Society for the production of flax cotton. 



On motion, the following societies were ordered to be placed 

 on the list of corresponding societies : the Zoologisch-Botan- 



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