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Stated 3Iecting, September 20, 1867. 



Present, seven members. 



Prof. Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read from General John Meredith Read, 

 dated Albany, July 30, and from N. B. Browne, dated Phila- 

 delphia, August 27, 1867, acknowledging the receipt of the 

 notice of and their acceptance of membership ; from the 

 Imperial Geographical Society of Russia, the Hungarian 

 Academy of Science at Pesth, the Public Museum of Buenos 

 Ayres, the Harvard College Observatory, and Archibald 

 Campbell, Commissioner of Northwest Boundary Survey, an- 

 nouncing donations ; and from the Rhode Island, the Mas- 

 sachusetts, and Pennsylvania Historical Societies, acknowl- 

 edging the receipt of publications of this Society. Also 

 from A. Dick & Co., of Paris, in relation to the new metal, 

 "Indium." 



Donations for the Library were announced, viz. : From 

 the Academies of Sciences — the Imperial at St. Petersburg, 

 the Hungarian at Pesth, and the Royal at Berlin ; and the 

 Societies — the Imperial Naturalists' at Moscow, the Royal 

 Danish Astronomical at Copenhagen, the German Geological 

 at Berlin, the Imperial Geological at Vienna, the London 

 Astronomical, the London Meteoroloo;ical, and the Geog-ra- 

 phical of Paris, Annales des Mines. Also, from Dr. F. C. 

 Noll, editor of the Zoological Garden, Frankfort-on-the- 

 Main ; Joachim Barrande, Prague ; Dr. Gustav Waldcmar 

 Foeke, of Bremen ; Dr. G. Rienold Treviranus, of Bremen ; 

 the Doctors' Union of Bremen ; Dr. Franz Buchenau, of Bre- 

 men : Ch. Des Moulins, of Bordeaux ; V. Alexis de Gourgues, 

 of Bordeaux, and the Public Museum of Buenos Ayres. 

 From Societies — the Rhode Island Historical, the American 

 Antiquarian at Boston, the Boston Natural History, the Wis- 

 consin State Historical, and the American Oriental at Boston ; 

 the Observatory of Harvard College, the Essex Institute of 



