1893.] -'■^* 



interests cf the class of persons whose exhibition for compensalioc is for- 

 bidden by its terms. 



On motion, the Society adopted the resolution and referred 

 the matter to the President, with power to make such repre- 

 sentations to the Legislature as he might choose, if in his dis- 

 cretion he saw fit so to do. 



And the Society was adjourned by the Presiding Member. 



Stated Meeting, April 21, 1893. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



A circular relating to the Hodgkins prizes offered by the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from Mr. Samuel 

 Davenport, Adelaide, Australia (1^8) ; Socidte de Geographie 

 de Finlande, Helsingfors (L37, 138); K. Bibliothek, Berlin, 

 Prussia (Transactions, xvii, 1, 2) ; Socidtd de Geographie, So- 

 ciete Philologique, Marquis de Nadaillac, Profs. E. Levasseur, 

 G. Maspero, Paris, France (139); Comte Hyacinth de Cha- 

 rencey, St. Maurice-les-Charencey, France (139) ; Prof. Alex- 

 ander Agassiz, Cambridge, Mass. (139); Mercantile Library, 

 St. Louis, Mo. (Catalogue, Parts i-iv). 



Accessions to the Library were reported from the Congres 

 Internationaux, d' Anthropologic, Archa?ologie prehistorique et 

 Zoologie, Moscow, Russia; Socidte de Geographie de Finlande, 

 Helsingfors; Nederlandsche Maatschappij ter bevordering van 

 Nijverheid, Harlem, Holland ; K. P. Meteorologisch Institut, 

 K. P. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Prussia ; Frau 

 Gerhard vom Rath, Leipzig, Saxony; R. Istituto di Studi 

 Superiori, Firenze, Italy ; Accademia di Scienze Morale e 



