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Stated Meeting, December 21, 1866. 



Present, seventeen members. 

 Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. P. Uhler, a member of corresponding Society, was 

 introduced. 



Letters were read from the Holhmd Society of Sciences, 

 at Harlem ; from the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 Manchester, April 14; from the Society of Natural Sciences 

 at Marburg, September 28, 1866, announcing the transmis- 

 sion of donations, and from the Imperial Geographical So- 

 ciety of St. Petersburg, July 25 and August 6, 1866 ; from 

 the Imperial Geological Institute at Vienna, April 26, 1866 ; 

 from the Royal Academy at Brussels, Nov. 20, 1865 ; from 

 the Royal Academy at Amsterdam, Nov. 23, 1865 ; from the 

 Physical Society at Berlin ; from the Royal Society at Got- 

 tingen, March 22, 1866 ; from the Royal Belgian Academy, 

 November, 1865, and February 14, 1866 ; from the Royal 

 Geological Society of Ireland, November 29, 1865 ; from the 

 Museum of the Antiquaries of Scotland, January and Feb- 

 ruary, 1866 ; from the Society of Antiquaries of London, Feb- 

 ruary 2, 1865, and August 4, 1866 ; from the Essex Institute 

 of Salem, Mass., July 5, 1866 ; from the Massachusetts His- 

 torical Society, April 2 and August 29, 1866 ; from the Pub- 

 lic Library at Boston, September 12, 1866; from the Ameri- 

 can Antiquarian Society at Worcester, Mass., July 5 and 

 July 11, 1866 ; from the University of Toronto, March 19, 

 1866 ; from the Buffalo Natural History Society, November 

 22, 1866; from the Historical Society of Chicago, March 20, 

 1866 ; from the American Oriental Society of New Haven, 

 March, 1866 ; from the New York Historical Society, July 

 5 and July 11, 1866; from the New Jersey Historical So- 

 ciety, July 5, 1866, and from the Historical Society of Penn- 

 sylvania, June 25 and July 18, 1866, severally acknowledging 

 the receipt of publications of this Society. 



Donations for the Library were announced as follows : 

 From the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow ; the 



