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A letter from Mr. C. F. Lee, dated Alexandria, Va., Sept. 

 13, 1889, making inquiries in regard to the " Lee papers." 

 . Accessions to the Library were announced from the Statis- 

 tika Central Byran, Stockholm, Sweden ; Philological Society, 

 Cambridge, Eng. ; Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic 

 Society, Halifax, Eng. ; Astronomical Observatory of Harvard 

 College, Cambridge, Mass. ; Maimonides Library, New York ; 

 College of Pharmacy, Dr. Horace Jayne, Philadelphia ; De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Photographs for the Society's Album were received from 

 Dr. P. von Tunner, Leobeu, Austria ; Dr. C. A. Dohrn, Stettin, 

 Prussia. 



The Special Committee on Prof. Osborn's Paper reported it 

 worthy of publication in the Transactions of the Society, and 

 was discharged. 



Pending nomination No, 1181, and new nominations 1188, 

 1189, 1190, 1191, 1192 and 1193 were read. 



And the Society was adjourned by the presiding member. 



Stated Meeting^ October Jf.^ 1889. 



Present, 26 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Prof. Henry D. Gregory, LL.D., a lately elected member, 

 was presented to the Chair and took his seat. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows, viz. : 



Letters of envoy were received from the Eoyal Irish 

 Academy, Eoyal Dublin Society, Dublin ; Meteorological 

 Office, London ;- U. S. Chief Signal Officer, Washington, D. C. 



Letters of acknowledgment for Transactions, Vol. xvi, No. 

 2, were received from the K. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 

 Copenhagen ; K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Gcittingen ; 

 Yerein fiir Yaterlandische Naturkunde, Wiirtemberg. 



Letters of acknowledgment for Proceedings No. 128 were 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVI. 130. 3j. PRINTED NOV. 18, 1889. 



