1887.] 



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University, Middletown ; Connecticut Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, New Haven ; Editor of "The Critic," New York ; Nat- 

 ural History Society, Trenton ; Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 College of Pharmacy, Editors of " The American Naturalist," 

 Messrs. H. H. Farness, H. Carvill Lewis, Henry Phillips, Jr., 

 Philadelphia; Gov. James A. Beaver, Harrisburg; Johns 

 Hopkins University, American Journal of Archaeology, Amer- 

 ican Journal of Philology, Baltimore; Light-House Board, 

 Census Office, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 Bureau of the Mint, Washington; Mr. Jed. Hotchkiss, Staun- 

 ton ; Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul. 



The following papers were presented for the Proceedings: 



By Dr. F. A. Genth. " Contributions from the Chemical 

 Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania. No. XXIX. 

 Contributions to Mineralogy." 



Through the Secretaries : 



From Prof. John J. Stevenson — " A Geological Eeconnais- 

 sance of Bland, Giles, Wythe, and portions of Pulaski and 

 Montgomery counties of Virginia." 



From Prof. E. D. Cope, on " The Reptilian Fauna of the 

 Mato Grosso, Central Brazil." 



Pending nominations Nos. llo4;-58 and new nomination 

 No. 1159 were read, and the meeting was adjourned by the 

 President. 



Stated Meeting^ April 1^ 1887. 



Present, 16 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



A letter of envoy was read from the Meteorological Office, 

 London. 



Letters of acknowledgment were read from the K. Zoolog. 

 Genootschap, Amsterdam (124); the Eoyal Society, Edin- 

 burgh (122). 



A letter was read from " Baboika,^^ requesting the return of 

 a communication under that name for the Magellanic pre- 

 mium, which was on motion ordered to be returned to the 



