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the Royal Danish Society of Sciences at Copenhagen, March 

 31 and September 27 ; from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 

 December 4 ; from the Academy of Sciences at Chicago, Feb- 

 ruary 1st; from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; from 

 the Essex Institute, Salem, Februai-y 13 ; from the New York 

 Historical Society, severally acknowledging the receipt of 

 publications of the Society. 



A letter from T. Morris Perot, President of the Mercantile 

 Library, was read. 



Donations to the Library were announced as follows : From 

 the Royal Society of Victoria at Melbourne ; from the Royal 

 Danish Astronomical Society at Copenhagen ; from the Up- 

 per Lausatian Society of Sciences at Gorlitz ; from the Royal 

 Prussian Academy at Berlin ; from the Zoological Garden at 

 Frankfort au Main ; from the Society of Natural History at 

 Strasburg ; from the Munich Observatory ; from the Royal 

 Bavarian Academy at Munich ; from the Physical and Nat- 

 ural History Society at Geneva ; from the Geographical So- 

 ciety at Paris ; from the Geological Society at Glasgow ; from 

 the Royal Society of Edinburgh ; from the Leeds Philosophi- 

 cal and Literary Society ; from Henry Denny ; from the So- 

 ciety of Arts and of the Institutions in Union at London; 

 from the Royal Geographical Society of London ; from 

 Messrs. La Rue, Stewart & Loewy, London ; from A. H. 

 Worthen of the Geological Survey of Illinois ; from the New 

 Jersey Historical Society ; from the Water Department of 

 this city ; from Dr. Hayden ; from the Franklin Institute ; 

 from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Pliiladelphia; from 

 the publishers of the Medical News and Library. 



Dr. Hayden introduced the subject of photographic repre- 

 sentations of the Indian aborigines, resident in the regions 

 west of the Mississippi, and recommended the preservation 

 of photographs of persons and scenery from that part of the 

 country in albums of the Society. 



The proceedings of the Board of Officers and Council at 

 their last meeting were read. 



The subject of an exchange of publications with the Geo- 



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