406 [Sept. ?. 



Office, Gen. M. C. Meigs, Drs. J. S. Billings, J. H. C. Coffin, 

 Albert S. Gatschet, Asaph Hall, C. Y. Eilej, Messrs. Chas. A. 

 Schott, Wm. B. Taylor, Washington, D. C. (125) ; Virginia 

 Historical Society, Richmond (125) ; Leander McCormick 

 Observatory, Prof. J. W. Mallet, University of Virginia (125) ; 

 Elliott Society of Sciences and Art, Charleston (125); Georgia 

 Historical Society, Savannah (125); Prof. E. W. Claypole, 

 Akron, 0. (125) ; Cincinnati Observatory, Society of Natural 

 History, Prof. J. M. Hart, Cincinnati (125) ; Rev. Henry S. 

 Osborn, Oxford, O. (125) ; Dr. Robert Peter, Lexington, Ky. 

 (125); Prof. J. L. Campbell, Crawfordsville, Ind. (125) ; Prof. 

 Daniel Kirkwood, Bloomington, Ind. (125) ; Chicago Histori- 

 cal Society (125); Rantoul Literary Society (125); Profs. 

 Henry S. Frieze, Alexander Winchell, Ann Arbor, Mich. (125) ; 

 State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison (125) ; Kansas 

 Historical Society, Topeka (125) ; University of California, 

 Profs. John and Joseph LeConte, Berkeley (125) ; California 

 Academy of Sciences, Prof. George Davidson, San Francisco, 

 (125). 



The following societies, etc., were at request placed upon the 

 Exchange List to receive the Society's Proceedings from No. 

 96: 



Natural History and Antiquarian Society of Penzance ; 

 Physiological Society of Berlin ; Royal Library, Brussells ; 

 Vereinfiir Erdkunde, Metz; Wagner Free Institute of Science, 

 Philadelphia ; Voigtlandischer Alterthumsforschender Verein, 

 Hohenleuben, Saxony ; Linnean Society of New South Wales, 

 Ehzabeth Bay. 



A letter was read in relation to a portrait of Humboldt, 

 ofiered for sale to the Society, and the President was author- 

 ized to appoint a committee to ascertain what members are 

 desirous of subscribing to the purchase of same for presenta- 

 tion to the Society. 



The Observatorio Meteorologico Magnetico Central, Mexico, 

 requested by letter Proceedings 102, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 

 116; on motion the request was granted. 



Letters accepting membership were read from : 



Dr. Henry Kiepert, Berlin. 



