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The Enoch Pratt Free Ijibrary of Baltimore requested to be 

 placed on the Proceedings' exchange list. On motion, the ap- 

 plication was granted. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences acknowledged the re- 

 ceipt of the Secretary's letter of December 16, relating to the 

 Keating- Poinsett Collection, stating that the same had been 

 referred to the Curators, 



A circular from the American Folk-Lore Society, announcing 

 its annual meeting for 1892 at Boston. 



Accessions to the Library were reported from tlie Royal 

 Asiatic Society (Straits Branch), Singapore; Royal Society of 

 Victoria, Melbourne; Department of Mines, Wellington, N. Z.; 

 Anthropological Society, Tokyo, Japan; Statistika Central 

 Byraus, Stockholm, Sweden ; Maatschappij der Nederlandsche 

 Letterkunde, Leiden, Holland ; Academic Royale de Belgique, 

 Bruxelles ; Academic des Sciences, Cracow, Austria ; Anthro- 

 pologische Gesellschaft, Vienna, Austria ; Naturforschende 

 Geselltchaft, Altenburg, Germany; Physiologische Gesellschaft, 

 Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologic, etc., Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde, 

 Berlin ; Gartenbauverein, Darmstadt ; K. Oeflfentliche Biblio- 

 thek, Dresden; Verein fiir Erdkunde, Halle a. S. ; Deutsche 

 Seewarte, Hamburg; Geographische Gesellschaft, Munich, 

 Bavaria ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein, Regensburg ; Biblio- 

 teca N. C. Firenze, Italia ; R, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome ; 

 Socidte de Geographic, Lille, France; Commission des An- 

 nales des Mines, Societe de L'Enseignement, Society de Geo- 

 graphic, Redaction Cosmos, Paris; R. Academia de la Histoiia, 

 Madrid, Spain ; South African Philosophical Society, Cape 

 Town ; R, Astronomical Society, R. Geographical Society, 

 Editors of Nature, London ; University Observatory, Glas- 

 gow ; Royal Society, .Edinburgh ; Mr. Horatio Hale, Clinton, 

 Ontario; Canadian Institute, Toronto; Boston Atheneeum, 

 Society of Natural History, Boston, Mass. ; Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Cambridge, Mass. ; Travelers' Insurance Co., Hart- 

 ford, Conn. ; Editors of American Journal of Science, New 

 Haven; Brooklyn Library; Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. ; 

 American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Mathematical So- 



