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Stated Meeting, May 5, 1893. 

 Vice-President, Dr. Ruschenberger, in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Letters of envoy were received from the K. Sachsische Gesell- 

 schaft der Wissenschaften, Leipzig; Bath and West and 

 Southern Counties Society, Bath, Eng. ; Eoyal Statistical 

 Society, Meteorological Office, London, Eng. ; Texas Academy 

 of Science, Austin. 



Letters of acknowledgment (139) were received from the 

 Naturforschende Gesellschaft des Osterlandes, Altenberg, Ger- 

 many ; Deutsche Seewarte, Hamburg, Germany ; Profs. Aris- 

 tides Brezina, Matthew Much, Friederich Miiller, Vienna, 

 Austria; Societ6 de I'Histoire de France, Paris; Sir John 

 Evans Hensel, Hempstead, England; Philosophical and Literary 

 Society, Leeds, England ; Royal Astronomical Society, Victoria 

 Institute, Royal Society, Royal Institution, Zoological Society, 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, Royal Statistical Society, 

 Royal Meteorological Societ}'-, Mr. C. Juhlin Dannfeld, Lon- 

 don, England ; Natural History Society, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 

 England; Sir Lowthian Bell, Northallerton, England; Rad- 

 cliff'e Observatory, Prof. J. J. Sylvester, Oxford, England; 

 Mr. Alfred R. Wallace, Parkstone, Dorset, England ; Academy 

 of Science, Rochester, N. Y. 



Accessions to the Library were reported from the Zoolo- 

 gisch-Botanische Gesellschaft, K. K. Naturehistorische Ilof- 

 museum, Vienna, Austria ; Deutsche Seewarte, Hamburg, 

 Germany ; K. Siichs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Leipzig; 

 Ministero di Agricoltura, Industria e Commercia, Rome, 

 Ital}^ ; R. Osservatorio Astronomico, Turin, Italy; Royal In- 

 stitution, Meteorological Council, Royal Microscopical Society, 

 London, England ; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 Cambridge, Mass. ; Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 Yale University, New Haven; American Museum of Natural 

 History, Messrs. J. Wiley k Sons, New York, N. Y. ; Smith- 

 sonian Institution, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Mr. J. C. 



