1887.] 445 



€1103 to the lately-appointed commission to determine upon a 

 uniform mode of spell'ng in public documents, etc., of the State 

 of Pennsylvania. 



The American Association for the Study of Modern Lan- 

 guages was invited to visit the Society's Hall during its ap- 

 proaching session in this city. 



Letters of acknowledgment from Imperial Kussian Geo- 

 graphical Society, St. Petersburg (125); Prof. Otto Donner, 

 Helsingfors (125) ; Societe R. des Sciences, Upsal (123, 124 

 and List of Members) ; Captain Richard Temple, Mandalay 

 (125). 



Letters were read from the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, 

 inviting the officers of the Society to be present at its Recep- 

 tion, December 17, 1887, the Decennial Anniversary of the 

 Foundation of the Club ; 



From the Rutland County (Vermont) Historical Society, 

 requesting Constitution, Laws, etc.; 



From the Smithsonian Institution, announcing the election 

 of Prof. Samuel P. Langley, LL.D., as Secretary ; 



From the Oneida County Historical Society, in reference to 

 a celebration of the New Hartford Centennial. 



A circular was read announcing the proposed issue of a new 

 journal to be called Tlie American Anthropologist. 



Accessions to the library from Royal Society of Tasmania ; 

 Geological Survey of India, Calcutta ; Naturforschender Verein, 

 Riga; K. B. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Miinchen ; Soci6te 

 R. des Sciences, Upsal ; Fondation de P. Teyler van der Hulst, 

 Harlem ; Societii Italiana della Scienze, Torino ; Publishers 

 of "Cosmos," Paris; Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 

 London ; Philosophical Society, Cambridge ; Radcliff'e Obser- 

 vatory, Oxford ; Philosophical Society, Glasgow ; Messrs. 

 Henry W. and Henry Y. Poor and Charles E. Sprague, New 

 York; Mr. Heilry Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia; Johns Hopkins 

 University, Baltimore ; U. S. Geological Survey, U. S. Naval 

 Observatory, "Washington, D. C. ; Prof. J. W. Mallett, Uni- 

 versity of Yirginia. 



