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Stated Meeting, October ^1, 1887. 



Present, 26 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Prof. Smyth, a lately elected member, was presented to the 

 Chair and took his seat. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



A letter, dated September 10, 1887, from the Geographical 

 Society of Lisbon, announcing the death of its President, M. 

 d'Aguiar. 



Letters from Prof. Joseph Prestv/ich and Sir Richard Owen, 

 giving change of address, 



A letter from the New York Academy of Medicine, asking 

 exchange of publications, which on motion was granted. 



A letter of envoy from the Meteorological Office, London, 

 Eng. 



Letters of acknowledgment from R. Saxon Society of 

 Science, Leipzig (125); Philosophical Society, University Li- 

 brary, Cambridge, Eng. (125) ; Yorkshire Geological and Poly- 

 technic Society, Halifax, Eng. (125) ; Royal Statistical, Society 

 of Arts, London, Eng. (125) ; Zoological Society of London 

 (122-125) ; William Crooks, Sir Richard Owen, Loudon, Eng. 

 (125) ; Sir Henry W. Acland, Oxford, Eng. (125) ; Society of 

 Antiquaries of London (125); Royal Dublin Society (125); 

 Prof. W. P. AYilson, Philadelphia (125) ; Col. Garrick Mallery, 

 Washington, D. C. (125). 



Accessions to the Library were received from the Linnrean 

 Society of New South Wales, Sydney ; New Zealand Insti- 

 tute, Wellington ; Serge Nikitin, St. Petersburg ; K. K. Uni- 

 versitats Sternwarte, Prag ; Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologic, 

 Ethnologie, etc., Berlin ; G. vom Rath, Bonn ; Silesian Botani- 

 cal Exchange Society, Plancgg ; K. Nordiske Oldskrift Sels- 

 kab, Copenhagen ; Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele, 

 Rome; Societe de Geographic, Paris; Meteorological Council, 

 Cobden Club, London ; American Academy of Arts and 



