1893.] ^51 



Stated Meeting, November 17, 1893. 

 President, Mr, Fkaley, in the Chair. 



A circular was received from the Wyomiog Historical and 

 Geological Society, Wilkesbarre, Pa., inviting the Society to 

 be present at the opening of its new buildiag, Nov. 20, 1893. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Geological Survey 

 of India, Calcutta ; K. Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien, Stock- 

 holm, Sweden ; Royal Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam, 

 Netherlands ; Ministero della Instruzione Publica, Rome, Italy ; 

 Schlesische Gesellschaft fiir Vaterlandische Cultur, Breslau, 

 Prussia; K. Siichsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Leip- 

 zig; Central Bureau der Internationalen Erdmessung, Potsdam, 

 Prussia ; Geological Society of America, Rochester, N. Y. ; 

 Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C; Kansas Universit}^, 

 Lawrence, Kans. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Public 

 Library, Wellington, N. Z. (1-10); China Branch of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society, Shanghai (139, 140); Imperial Academy of 

 Science (141), Observatoire Physique Central (141), Prof. 

 Serg^ Nikitin (139-141), St. Petersburg, Russia ; Prof. Japetus 

 J. Steenstrup, Copenhagen, Denmark (141) ; Academic Royale 

 des Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands (137-140, and Trans., 

 xvii, 1, 2) ; K. K. Astronomisch-meteorologische Observa- 

 torium, Triest, Austria (139, 140); K. K. Geologische Reichs- 

 austalt (140), Dr. Aristides Brezina, Prof. Dr. Friedrich Miiller, 

 Vienna, Austria (141); K. Geodatisches Institut, Potsdam, 

 Prussia (140, 141); Redaction der JSfaturwissenschaftlichen 

 Wochenschrift, Berlin, Prussia (139); University of Bonn 

 (140) ; Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Emden, Prussia (139, 

 140); Geographische Gesellschaft, Hamburg, Germany (140, 

 141); M. Otto Bohtlingk, Leipzig, Saxony (141); Yerein der 

 Freunde der Naturgeschichte, Mecklenburg, Germany (140) ; 

 Prof. Guido Cora, Turin, Italy (140); Academic des Sciences 

 et Belles-Lettres, Angers, France (140) ; Soci(^td d'Histoire et 

 d'Archdologie, Chalon s. Saone, France (141) ; Universite de 



