Jan. 7, 1887.1 1" ' 



Stated Meeting^ January 7, 1887 . 

 Present, 24 member?. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in tlie Chair. 



Dr. Marshall, a lately-elected member, was presented to the 

 Chair, and took his seat. 



Correspondence was read as follows: 



Acknowledgments were received from : Societe Historic Lit- 

 teraire, Artistique et Scientifique du Cher, Bourges (96-123); 

 Royal Institution, Society of Antiquaries, Royal Horticultural 

 Society, South Kensington Museum, Mr. R. "W". Rawson, Lon- 

 don ; University Library, Cambridge ; Prof. I. Geikie, Edin- 

 burgh ; Free Public Library, New Bedford (123). 



Acceptance of MemhersMi-). — Prof. Charles S. Dolley, Prof. 

 Morton W. Easton, Dr. Hermann Y. Hilprecht, Prof, James 

 MacAlister, Dr. Wm. F. Norris, Prof. John A. Ryder, Phila- 

 delphia ; Prof. Wm. B. Scott, Princeton, N. J. 



Photographs were received for the Society's Album from 

 Messrs. Wm. Blades and H. Carvill Lewis. 



Accessions to the Library were reported from the Asiatic 

 Society of Japan, Yokohama ; Royal Asiatic Society (North 

 China Branch), Shanghai ; Messrs, R. Friedlander & Sohn, 

 Berlin ; Gartenbauverein, Darmstadt ; Dr, A, Weisbach, Frei- 

 berg ; Astronoraische Nachrichten, Kiel ; Der Naturfor- 

 scher, Tiibingen ; Societe Batave de Philosophic Experi- 

 mentale de Rotterdam ; Societes Malacologique, Entomologique 

 de Belgique, Academic de Belgique, Bruxelles; Biblioteca 

 Nazionale Centrale di Firenze ; R. Societa Italiana d'Igiene, 

 Milan; R. Accademia dei Lincei, Rome; Societe de Geo- 

 graphic, Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, Revue Inter- 

 nationale de I'Enseignement, Paris ; Sociedade de Geographia 

 de Lisboa, R. Academia de la Historia, Madrid ; Revista Eus- 

 kara, Pamplona, Spain ; Royal Society, Royal Astronomical 

 and Geographical Societies, Greenwich Observatorj^, Royal 

 Horticultural Society, Liverpool ; Natural Histor}'- Society, 

 Montreal ; " Mr. George L. Vose, Boston ; Yale College, 



