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Stated Meeting^ Septemler 6^ 1895. 

 Mr. Harold Goodwin, in the Chair. 

 Present, 6 members. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Letters acknowledging election to membership from Mrs. 

 Zelia Nuttall, Dresden, Saxony ; Dr. George Ebers, Berlin, 

 Prussia; Dr. Paul Heyse, Munich, Bavaria; Prof. Paolo 

 Montegaze, Florence, Italy ; Dr. M. Berthelot, Paris, France ; 

 Hon. George F. Edmunds, Burlington, Vt.; Prof. F. W. Put- 

 nam, Cambridge, Mass.; Prof. E. S. Morse, Salem, Mass.; Prof. 

 J. Willard Gibbs, New Haven, Conn.; Hon. Edward J. Phelps, 

 New Haven, Conn.; Mr. James C. Carter, New York, N. Y.; 

 Mr. George Tucker Bispham, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mr. Joel 

 Cook, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mr. Frederick D. Stone, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa.; Hon. Mayer Sulzberger, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mr. 

 A. Marshall EUiott, Baltimore, Md.; Hon. J. Eandolph 

 Tucker, Lexington, Va.; Dr. Marshall D. Ewell, Chicago, 111. 



Letter of resignation from Mr. Henry W. Spangler, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



A letter from the K. Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie, 

 Halle a. S., July 1, 1895, announcing the death of its President, 

 Prof. Dr. Hermann Knoblauch, June 30, 1895, in his seventy- 

 sixth year. 



A letter from the Physikalisch-Okonomische Gesellschaft, 

 Kcinigsberg, i. Pr., May 24, 1895, announcing the death of its 

 honorary President, Prof. Dr. Franz Ernst Neumann, May 23, 

 1895. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Geological Survey 

 of India, Calcutta ; Naturforscher Gesellschaft, Dorpat, Russia ; 

 Naturforschende Verein, Briinn, Austria ; Geologische Reichs- 

 anstalt, Vienna, Austria ; K. Siichsische Gesellschaft der 

 Wissenschaften, Leipzig ; K. Geodatisches Institut, Potsdam, 

 Prussia; Verein filr Vaterljindische Naturkunde in Wlirttem- 

 berg, Stuttgart ; Facultc des Sciences, Marseille, France ; Musee 

 Guimet, Bureau des Longitudes, Socidt^ Gcologique de France, 



