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Staged Meeting^ November 15, 1889. 



Present, 10 members. 

 President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows: 



From the Naturforschende Gesellschaft zu Bmden, Hano- 

 ver, an invitation to the celebration of the seventy-fifth anni- 

 versary of its foundation, December 29, 1889, to which the 

 Secretaries were directed to make a suitable reply. 



A photograph for the Society's album was received from 

 Mr. George Harding, Philadelphia. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Mines Department, 

 Wellington, New Zealand ; Musee Guimet, Paris, France ; 

 Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester, Eng. ; Tlieo- 

 logical Seminary, Andover, Mass. ; Department of State, 

 Washington, D. G. 



Letters of acknowledgment from the Geological Society of 

 London (127, 128, and Transactions, xvi, 2); Bureau of Sta- 

 tistics of Labor, Boston, Mass. (96-129, Catalog, Parts i-iv). 



Letters of acknowledgment for 129 from the Geographical 

 Society, St. Petersburg, Russia ; Biblioteca N. V. E., Rome, 

 Italy ; K. Siichsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Leip- 

 zig, Saxony ; Dr. John Evans, London, Eng. ; and from the 

 Tokyo Library, Japan, for 96-129, and Catalog. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture and the Nova Scotia 

 Institute of Science were placed on the exchange list to re- 

 ceive Proceedings from No. 97. 



Accessions to the Library were reported from the Royal 

 Society of Victoria ; Department of Mines, Melbourne ; 

 Academie de la Rochelle, France ; Societe d'Agriculture, His- 

 toire Naturelle et Arts Utiles, Lyon ; Societe de I'Histoire de 

 France, Redaction " Cosmos," Societe de Medecine Pratique, 

 Paris; Societe des Antiquaires de la Morinie, St. Oraer ; Geo- 

 logical and Natural History Survey of Canada, Montreal ; 



