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A letter from Dr. George Inman Eicbe, of Philadelphia, 

 tendering his resignation from membership in tlie Society, 

 which, on motion, was accepted. 



A letter from B. A. Stephens, Los Angeles, Cal., in relation 

 to a National Convention of Historical Societies, proposed to 

 be held in Philadelphia on July 4, 1890, was referred to the 

 Secretaries with power to act. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Mining Department, 

 Melbourne, Victoria ; Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes, Mos- 

 cow, Eussia ; Verein fiir Erdkunde, Dresden ; K. Istituto di 

 Studi Superior!, Florence, Italy • Eoyal Statistical Society, 

 London ; Boston Society of Natural History; U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C. 



Letters of acknowledgment (128) were received from the 

 Eoyal Geographical Society, St. Petersburg ; Mr. Samuel Da- 

 venport, Adelaide, Australia ; Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory. 



Letters of acknowledgment (129) were received from the 

 China Branch, Eoyal Asiatic Society, Shanghai ; Geological 

 Survey, Calcutta, India ; Observatoire Astronomique et Phy- 

 sique, Tashkent, Eussia ; " Le Cosmos," Marquis de Nadaillac, 

 Prof. Eemi Simeon, Paris ; Maine Historical Societj^, Port- 

 land ; Boston Society of Natural History ; Academy of Nat- 

 ural Sciences, Davenport, la. 



Accessions to the Library were announced from the Eoyal 

 Society of Tasmania, Hobart ; Mr. H. Y. L. Brown, Adelaide, 

 Australia; Societe Finnoise d'Archselogie, Helsingfors; Soci- 

 ete Imperiale des Naturalistes, Moscow, Eussia ; Magyar 

 Tudomanyos Akademia, Budapest ; Verein fiir Erdkunde, 

 Dresden; Verein fiir Thiiringische Geschichte, Jena; Pub- 

 lishers of the " Interpretor," Leipzig ; Verein fiir Naturkunde, 

 Offenbach a. M.; E. Istuto di Studi Superiori, Florence, Italy ; 

 Accademia di Scienze Morale et Politiche, Naples, Italy ; 

 Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, Halifax ; Ameri- 

 can Philological Association, Dr. F. B. Stephenson, Boston ; 

 Ehode Island Historical Society, Providence ; New York For- 

 est Commission, Troy ; Prof. Henry F. Osborne, Princeton, N. 



