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Sept. 1, 1893.] ^''^ 



PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT P11ILADELPHI.\ FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXXL July to Decemker, 1893. No. 143. 



Stated Meeting^ September 1, 1893, 



ERRATUM. 



Faoe 132, thirteenth line from top, should read: 

 "The President was authonzed to appoint a suitable person 

 to prepare the usual obituary notice." 



An invitation from the New Haven Colony Historical 

 Society, New Haven, Conn., to be present at the dedication of 

 the new building erected as a memorial to James E. and Caro- 

 line A. English, to take place September 28, 1893, at 8 p.m. 



A circular from the Congres International de Zoologie, 

 Paris, relative to the prizes which will be awarded by the 

 Congres. 



A circular from the Anthropological Society of Washing-- 

 ton in regard to the Citizenship Prizes to be awarded for 

 essays on specified subjects. 



A letter from the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, requesting certain numbers of the Society's 

 Proceedings and Transactions to complete their set. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXXI. 143. 2 D. PRINTED NOV. 15, 1893. 



