1889.] ^'J* 



Mr. Phillips presented " A Supplemental Kegister of Papers 

 published in the Proceedings of the Society from No. 115 to 

 128 (Vol. XXI to XXIY), 1881-1889," completing the Regis- 

 ter prepared by him in 1880. 



Also a Subject Eegister of Communications published by the 

 Society in its Transactions and Proceedings. 



The Secretaries were authorized to have a sufficient number 

 of these printed separately for general use. 



Mr. Phillips read an account of the Congo Free State. 



Dr. Rothrock made an oral communication in reference to 

 Forestry in Pennsylvania. 



New nominations 1183, 1184 and 1185 were read. 



On motion of Prof. Rothrock the Society resolved to appro- 

 priate a sum not to exceed $50, to enable the Committee on 

 the Michaux Legacy to transmit from the Society to the Jardin 

 des Plantes, Paris, a duplicate set of photographs of American 

 trees. 



And the meeting was adjourned by the presiding member. 



Stated Meeting^ February 16^ 1889. 



Present, 15 members. 

 President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



A letter from Prof. Steiner, of Darmstadt, in relation to 

 Pasilengua^ etc., dated January 20, 1889. 



A circular from the U. S. Commission to the Paris Exposi- 

 tion of 1889, in reference to the same. 



Letters from the Observatoire de Zoologie, Villefranche-Sur- 

 Mer, and the Geological and Natural History Survey of Min- 

 nesota, requesting to be placed on the exchange list, Avhich, on 

 motion, was so ordered from Proceedings 129. 



Letters of envoy from Physikalische Central-Observatorium, 

 St. Petersburg; Boston Society of Natural History; U.S. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVI. 129. 2l. PRINTED APRIL 4, 1889. 



