JUL 



Jan. 4, 1895.] 



PEOCE EDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROIOTIE USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXXIV. Januaky. 1895. No. 147. 



Stated Meeting^ January 4-, 1896. 

 President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Letters of resignation were received from Dr. George Straw- 

 bridge, Philadelphia ; Prof. Isaac Sharpless, Haverford, Pa. 



Accessions to the Library were reported from the Royal 

 Asiatic Society (China Branch), Shanghai, China ; Anthropo- 

 logical Society, Tokyo, Japan ; Societe de Geographic, Societe 

 Finno Ougrienne, Ilelsingfors, Finland; Societe Physico- 

 Mathematique, Kasan, Rassia ; Societe de des JSTaturalistes de 

 la Nouvelle Rus.-jie, Odessa ; Academie Imperiale des Sciences, 

 St. Petersburg, Russia ; A.cadeniie R. Suedoise des Sciences, 

 Stockholm, Sweden ; Academie R. des Sciences, Bruxelles, 

 Belgique; Deutsche Seevvarte, Hamburg, Germany; Bayer- 

 ische Botanische Gesellschaft, Munich ; Editors of II Nuovo 

 Cimtnto, Pisa, Italy ; R. Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, Italy ; 

 Societe des Sciences, Physiques, etc., Bordeaux, France ; 

 Academie des Sciences, Arts, etc., Dijon, France ; Academie 

 des Sciences, La Rochelle, France; Societe d 'Agriculture, 

 Sciences, etc., Lyons, France ; Societd Languedocienne de 

 Geographic, Montpellier, France ; Societe Francoise de 

 Physique, Societe de D'Enseignement, Societe de Geographic, 

 Redaction de Cosmos, Marquis de Nadaillac, Paris, France ; 

 Society des Antiquaries de la Morenie, Saint Omer, France; 

 Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society, Editors of Nature, 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. 60C. XXXIV. 147. A. PRINTED MARCH 8, 1895. 



