i-o4: [Dec. 17, 



Stated Meeting^ December 17^ 1886. 



Present, 39 members. 

 President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Letters of envoy from the Musee Tejler, Leyden, and Mete- 

 orolooical Office, London. 



Letters of acknowledgment from Serge Nikitin, St. Peters- 

 burg (123); Dr. Paul Albrecht, Hamburg (121, 122, 123); R. 

 Accademia dei Lincei, Rome (122) ; Mr. William John Potts, 

 Camden ,123). 



The College of Physicians requested, by letter, the oil por- 

 traits of Dr. Franklin Bache, Dr. Elisha Kent Kane and Dr. 

 Joseph Priestley, for use at its approaching Centennial. 



On motion, the paintings were ordered to be loaned, the 

 Curators taking proper guarantees for their safe keeping and 

 return. 



Accessions to the Library were announced from the follow- 

 ing : 



Geological Survey of India, Calcutta ; Naturforscher- Verein, 

 Riga; Fondation de P. Teyler, Harlem: Astronomische Nach- 

 richten, Kiel ; Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig ; Messrs. R. 

 Friedlander & Sdhn, Berlin ; Academic Royale de Belgique, 

 Bruxelles; Biblioteca Naziouale Centrale Y. E. di Firenze ; 

 Societe d'Emulation, d' Abbeville ; Societe Historique Litter- 

 aire ; Artistique et Scientifique du Cher, Bourges; Societe 

 des Sciences Naturelles et Archeologiques de la Creuse, Gueret; 

 Institut de France, Societes de Geographic, Geologique, Zoo- 

 logique, Musee Guimet, Ministeres de la Marine et de 1' Instruc- 

 tion Publique, Paris; Meteorological Council, Nature, Lon- 

 don ; American Journal of Science, New Haven ; Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, Prof. Benjamin A. Gould, Cambridge; 

 Messrs. Walter Baker & Co., Dorchester ; American Chemical 

 Society, New York ; Mr. George A. Bacon, Publisher, Syra- 

 cuse; College of Pharmacy, Publishers of the American 



