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A letter was read from the College of Physicians thanking 

 the Society for the loan of portraits at the late Centennial 

 Celebration of the College. 



A letter was read from G. Eichler, in Berlin, in reference to 

 his reproductions from the antique. 



Also one from the Buffalo Library inviting the Society to 

 the opening of its new Building, on February 7th, 1887. 



Accessions to the Library were received from the Depart- 

 ment of Mines, Melbourne ; K. K. Geologische Reichsanstalt, 

 Wien ; Gartenbauverein zu Darmstadt; Naturwissenschaft- 

 liche Gesellschaft " Isis," Dresden ; Verein fiir Thiiringische 

 Geschichte, Jena ; Astronomische Nachrichten, Kiel ; K. 

 Sachsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Zoologischer An- 

 zeiger, Leipzig ; Deutsche Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologie, 

 Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, Miinchen ; Prof. E. Renevier, 

 Lausanne ; Nordisk Oldkyndeghed og Historie, Copenhagen ; 

 Biblioteca N. Centrale, Vittorio Emanuelle, di Roma ; Biblio- 

 teca N. Centrale di Firenze ; Academic des Sciences, Arts and 

 Belles- Lettres de Caen; Societe de Borda, Dax; Societes de 

 Geographic, de L'Enseignement, D' Anthropologie, D' Ethno- 

 graphic, and Societe Americain de France, Paris ; Societe des 

 Antiquaires de la Morinie, St. Omer ; Royal Society, Society 

 of Arts, Meteorological Office, " Nature," London ; Cambridge 

 (Eng.) Philosophical Society ; Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory ; Essex Institute, Salem ; American Oriental Society, 

 Cambridge ; Publishers of " The Travelers' Record," Hartford ; 

 American Journal of Science, New Haven ; New York 

 Meteorological Observatory ; Mr. Wm. John Potts, Camden ; 

 Prof. George H. Cook, New Brunswick ; Franklin Institute 

 Pharmaceutical Association, Mercantile and Philadelphia 

 Libraries, Dr. D. Jayne & Son, Henry Phillips, Jr., Philadel- 

 phia ; Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Wilkes- 

 Barre ; Johns Hopkins University, Prof. Ira Remsen, Balti- 

 more ; the Philosophical Society, the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 and John H. Hickcox, Washington, D. C. ; Mr. Charles C. 

 Jones, Jr., Augusta, Ga.; the State Historical Society, Iowa 

 City, Iowa; the Imperial Observatory of Rio de Janeiro. 



PROC. AMER. PIIILOS. SOC. XXIV. 125. Y. PRINTED JUNE 7, 1887. 



