412 ,oct.7. 



Stated Meeting, Octoher 7, 1887. 



Present, 20 members. 



Vice-President, Dr. Euschenperger, in the Chair. 



Dr. Tyson and Mr. Harris, newly elected members, were pre- 

 sented to the Chair and took their seats. 

 Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Letter of envoy from L' Academic E. des Sciences, Amster- 

 dam. 



Letters of acknowledgment from L' Academic E. des Sciences, 

 Amsterdam (122, 128); Eoj^al Society, Eoyal Institution, 

 Linn^an, Eoyal Meteorological, Chemical, Geological Socie- 

 ties, London; Geological and Natural History Survey, Ottawa, 

 Canada; Prof. 0. C. Marsh, New Haven, Conn.; Prof C. A. 

 Young, Princeton, N. J.; Prof C. H.F. Peters, Clinton, N. Y.; 

 Vassar Brothers' Institute, Pougkkeepsie, N. Y. ; Eev F. A. 

 Muhlenberg, Philadelphia ; Profs. Lyman B. Hall, Isaac Sharp- 

 less, Haverford, Pa. ; Lackawanna Institute, Scranton, Pa. ; 

 Prof M. H. Boye, Coopersburg, Ya. ; Mr, Horatio Hale, Clin- 

 ton, Ontario, Canada; Mr. Everard F. im Thurn, Pomeroon 

 Eiver, British Guiana (125). 



Accessions to the Library were received from Government 

 Botanic Garden, Adelaide ; Prof. Clemens Winkler, Leipzig ; 

 Publishers of "Der Naturforscher," Tubingen; K. Akademie 

 van Wetenschappeu, Amsterdam ; Societe Hollandaise des 

 Sciences, Harlem ; Osservatorio di Torino ; Sociedade de Geo- 

 graphia, Lisboa ; British Government, Meteorological Office, 

 London ; Prof. Joseph Prestwich, Oxford ; Prof. H. Carvill 

 Lewis, Manchester, Eng.; Natural History Society, Montreal, 

 Canada ; Brooklyn Entomological Society ; New Jersey His- 

 torical Society, Newark ; University of Pennsylvania, D. G. 

 Brinton, William Pepper, Henry Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia ; 

 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore ; United States Fish 

 Commission, Department of State, War Department, Hydro- 



