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[Jan. 18, 



A letter from the President of the Society stating that he 

 had appointed Mr. Craig Biddle to prepare an obituary of the 

 late Casper Wistar, M.D., and that the appointment had been 

 accepted. 



A letter requesting exchanges was read from the Aachener 

 Geschichtsverein, which was granted, and the Society ordered 

 to receive Proceedings from No. 96. 



Accessions to the Library were announced from the Royal 

 Asiatic Society, North China Branch, Shanghai ; Government 

 Observatory, Madras; Hungarian Academy, Budapest; K. 

 Nordeske Oldskrift-Selskaf, Copenhagen ; Anthropologische 

 Gesellschaft, Wien ; Naturforschende Gesellschaft des Oster- 

 landes, Altenburg ; Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft, Messrs. 

 R. Friedliinder & Sohn, Redaktion " Naturwissenschaftliche 

 Wochenschrift," Berlin; Societe des Sciences Physiques et 

 Naturelles, Academic N. des Sciences, Bordeaux ; Societe 

 Zocilogique de France, Societe de Geographic, Ecole des Mines, 

 Bureau des Longitudes, Paris; Societe des Antiquaires de la 

 Morinie, Saint-Omer ; Philosophical Society, Cambridge, Fjng.; 

 Royal Society, R. Meteorological Society, Editor of the " Geo- 

 logical Magazine," London ; American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, Boston, Mass.; Publisher of " The Travellers' Record," 

 Hartford; Entomological Society, Brooklyn; Historical So- 

 ciety, American Chemical Society, Mrs. J. W. Barrow, New 

 York ; Mr. Charles W. Darling, Utica ; College of Pharmacy, 

 Franklin Institute, Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia ; 

 Prof. Ira Remsen, Baltimore ; U. S. Geological Survey, U. S. 

 National Museum, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Mr. James 

 P. Kimball, Washington, D. C; Elisha Mitchell Scientific 

 Society, Raleigh ; State Board of Health, Nashville ; Univer- 

 sity of California, Sacramento ; Observatorio Meteorologico- 

 Magnetico- Central, Mexico. 



The Committee on the Codex Poinsett reported progress, and 

 was continued. 



The Committee on Prof. Cope's paper was continued. 



The stated business of the evening was then taken up, and 



