^'J^' [Jan 21, 



Stated Meeting^ January ^1, 1887. 



Present, 87 members. 

 Mr. Richard Vaux in the Chair. 



Prof. James A. MacAlister, a newly-elected member, was 

 presented to the Chair and took his seat. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



A letter of envoy from the Real Academia del la Historia, 

 of Madrid, Spain, accompanying certain numbers of its publi- 

 cations, for which a request had been made. 



A letter from Prof. Horsford, in relation to Heckewelder's 

 MS. vocabulary of the Lenni-Lenuape, etc., was referrec! to the 

 Secretaries with power to fict. 



Letters of acknowledgment from the Statistical Society, 

 London (121, 123);" Portland Society of Natural History; 

 New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord ; State Library 

 of Massachusetts, Boston; Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Mr. Robert N. Toppan, Cambridge ; Essex Institute, Salem ; 

 American Antiquarian Society, Worcester; Rhode Island 

 Historical Society, Providence; Connecticut Historical Soci- 

 ety, Hartford; Prof. James Hall, Albany; Prof. C. H. F. 

 Peters, Clinton ; Dr. J. J, Stevenson, University of the City of 

 New York, Astor Library, New York; Oneida Historical 

 Society, Utica ; U.S. Military Academy, "West Point ; New 

 Jersey Historical Society, Newark ; Dr. George H. Cook, New 

 Brunswick; Rev. James A. Murray, Carlisle; Prof. M. H. 

 Boye, Coopersburg; Prof. J. W. Moore, Easton; Numismatic 

 and Antiquarian Society, Drs. S. W. Gross, C. A. Oliver, 

 Messrs. T. U. Walter, Thomas M. Cleeman, Henry Phillips, 

 Jr., Philadelphia ; Maryland Institute, Baltimore ; Surgeon- 

 General's Office, Washington, D. C. ; Leander McCormick 

 Observatory, Prof, J. W. Mallet, University of Virginia; 

 Elliott Society, Charleston; Georgia Historical Society, 'Sa- 

 vannah; Cincinnati Observatory ; Chicago Historical Society ; 

 Rantoul Literary Society ; State Historical Society of Wis- 



