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Curators. 

 Charles G. Ames, John R. Baker, Philip H. Law. 



Councilors for three years. 



Daniel R. Goodwin, Henry Winsor, William A. Ingham, 

 Thomas H. Dudley. 



Councilor for two years in place of Oswald Seidensticker, 

 resigned^ 



Richard Vaux. 



Treasiirer. 

 J. Sergeant Price. 



This being the evening for the nomination of a member to 

 serve as Librarian for the ensuing year. Dr. D. G. Brinton re- 

 nominated Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., Dr. Persifor Frazer nomi- 

 nated Admiral E. Y. ^JcCauley, and the nominations were 

 closed. 



Dr. D. G. Brinton read " Some Critical Remarks on the 

 Writings of Diego de Landa." 



Pending nomination No. 1151 and new nomination No. 

 1152 were read. 



A report was presented by the Committee on Library, ac- 

 companied by the following resolution, which was adopted by 

 the Society : 



"Resolved, That the Society request that the Library be kept open dur- 

 ing the year 1887 from 10 a.m. to 3 p. m. from January 1st to May 31st 

 and from October 1st to December 31st." 



A communication was read from Mr. E. Muybridge, request- 

 ing a subscription to his proposed work on " Animal Locomo- 

 tion." 



On motion the Library Committee was directed to report at 

 the next stated meeting of the Society on the expediency of 

 subscribing to it. 



And the Society was adjourned by the President. 



