1889.] 



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A circular from the American Oriental Society requesting 

 information as to whether the American Philosophical Society 

 possessed any Oriental manuscripts. 



Program of La Societe Batavede Philosophic Experimentale 

 de Eotterdam. 



Circular relating to the Bressa Prize of the Eoyal Academy 

 of Turin to be aAv^arded after December, 1890. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Mining Depart- 

 ment, Melbourne, Victoria; Verein fiir Erdkunde, Dresden; 

 Meteorological Office, London, Eng. ; New Haven Colony 

 Historical Society, New Haven, Conn.; Prof N. H. Winchell, 

 Minneapolis, Minn.; Oficina Meteorologico Argentina, Cordoba. 



Acknowledgments for 128 were received from Mr. Horatio 

 Hale, Clinton, Canada ; Sir J. W. Dawson, Montreal ; Geologi- 

 cal and Natural History Survey, Ottawa ; Sir Daniel Wilson, 

 Toronto ; Society of Natural History, Portland, Me. ; New 

 Hampshire Historical Society, Concord ; Prof. Charles Henry 

 Hitchcock, Hanover, N. H. ; Mr. Robert N. Toppan, Cam- 

 bridge ; Massachusetts Historical Society, American Statistical 

 Association, Public Library, State Library of Massachusetts, 

 Messrs. Stephen P. Sharpies, Robert C. Winthrop, Boston; 

 Free Public Library, New Bedford ; Rev. Edward B. Hale, 

 Roxbury ; Essex Institute, Salem ; Rhode Island Historical 

 Society, Prof Thomas Chase, Providence, R. I.; Yale Univer- 

 sity, New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven ; 

 Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. 



A circular from the Audubon Monument Association of 

 New York asking for contributions. 



A letter was read from Mr. Robert Patterson in answer to 

 one from Secretary Phillips, relating to the portraits of Robert 

 Patterson and Robert M. Patterson owned by the Society, of 

 which it has no record. Mr. Patterson states that he has in 

 his possession, a portrait of Robert Patterson painted by Rem- 

 brandt Peale, but is unable to say if the one belonging to the 

 Society is an original or a copy. 



That the portrait of Robert M. Patterson owned by the 

 Society was a replica painted by Mr. Samuel F. DuBois, his 



