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Stated Meeting, January 18, 1867. 



Present, twenty-four members. 

 Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read from the Royal Society of Sciences at 

 Gottingen, October 13 ; from the Society of Natural Sci- 

 ences at Altenburg, October 8 ; from the Society of N^itural 

 Sciences at Riga, 9th and 31st May, announcing donations. 

 Also, from the Royal Society at Gottingen, October 10; 

 from the Society of Natural Sciences at Emden, October 1 ; 

 from the Society of Natural Sciences at Riga, May 31 ; from 

 the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, August 2d, ac- 

 knowledging receipt of publications. 



Donations for the Library were announced : from the L^ni- 

 versity of Kharkof, Russia (five treatises in the Russian lan- 

 guage) ; from the Society of Natural Sciences at Riga ; from 

 the Royal Society of Science at Gottingen ; from the Royal 

 Society of Science at Leipsig ; from the Royal Prussian 

 Academy of Science at Berlin ; from the Society of Nat- 

 ural Science at Emden ; from the Royal Library at Munich ; 

 from the Imperial and Royal Geological Society at Vienna ; 

 from the Royal Academy of Sciences at Belgium ; from the 

 Society of Naturalists at Manheim ; from the Society of Nat- 

 ural Sciences at Bremen ; from the Society of Natural Sci- 

 ence at Altenburg ; from F. Zantedeschi ; the Annals of 

 Mines ; from the Royal Geographical Society of London ; 

 from the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass, ; from the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association ; from the publishers of the 

 American Journal of Medical Sciences, and the Medical 

 News and Library, Philadelphia. 



The death of Gen. Lewis Cass, a member, was announced 

 by Prof. Trego, as having occurred June 17, 1866, aged 82 

 years. 



The ■ death of "William Norris, a member, was announced 

 by Mr. Fraley as having occurred. 



