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contributions to a memorial monument to Jolin James Audu- 

 bon, to be erected in the city of New York. 



Letters from the Geographische Gesellschaft, Munich, and 

 also one from the Colorado Scientific Society, of Denver, re- 

 questing exchanges, which requests, on motion, were granted. 



Letters of envoy from the Eoyal Statistical Society and 

 Meteorological Office, London. 



Letters of acknowledgment from the Royal Society of New 

 South. Wales (123); K. K. Central- Anstalt fhr Meteorologie 

 und Erdmagnetismus, Wien (125) ; Naturforschende Gesell- 

 schaft, Emden (125) ; Prof. Adolph Bastian (125), and Meteo. 

 rologisches Institut, Berlin (117-125, etc.); Prof. G. vom Rath, 

 Bonn (125) ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein zu Bremen (125) ; 

 K. Sternwarte, Munich (125) ; Societe Historique Litterataire, 

 etc., du Cher (125); Societe Geologique de France, Victor 

 Duruy and Prof. Abel Hovelacque, Paris (125) ; Mr. L. A. 

 Scott, Philadelphia (125 and all previous numbers). 



Accessions to the Library were reported from the Geograph- 

 ische Gesellschaft in Miinchen ; Prof. Henri de Saussure, 

 Geneve ; Prof. G. Sergi, Rome ; R. Academia de la Historia, 

 Madrid; Meteorological Council, R. Statistical Society, Sir 

 Lowthian Bell, London ; Historical Society, Commission of the 

 State Reservation at Niagara, Buffalo ; Prof, J. S. Newberry 

 and publishers of " The Cosmopolitan," New York ; Publishers 

 of " The Medical and Surgical Reporter," and Mr. Henry Phil- 

 lips, Jr., Philadelphia ; Bureau of Education, Washington, 

 D. C; Washburn College, Kansas State Society, Topeka ; Col- 

 orado Scientific Society, Denver ; Observatorio Astronomico 

 Nacional de Tacubaya, Mexico ; Repiiblica Argentina, Amer- 

 ica del Sud-Buenos Aires. 



A photograph of Prof. F. Max Miiller, of Oxford, was pre- 

 sented by himself for the Album of the Society. 



An obituary notice of the late Isaac Lea, LL.D., by Prof. 

 Joseph Leidy, was read. 



The Proceedings of the Officers and Council were submit- 

 ted, and the Clerk of the Council transmitted the Report of the 



