^5b [Dec. 15, 



Stated Meeting^ December 15^ 1893. 

 President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Dr. Charles Scbaffer was presented to the Society and took 

 his seat. 



The President reported that the memorial authorized by the 

 Society at its last meeting had been signed, and presented to 

 Congress by Senator Cameron and Kepresentative Ilarmer. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Minist^redesTravaux 

 Publics, Paris, France ; Sociut(^ de Geographic de Toulouse, 

 France ; Royal Statistical Society, Zoological Society, London, 

 Eng.; Royal Irish Academy, Dublin ; Literary and Historical 

 Society, Quebec, Canada ; Bureau of Ethnology, Washington 

 D. C; Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 

 Madison ; Colorado Scientific Society, Denver, Colo.; Geologi- 

 cal Survey of Texas, Austin. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from Institut 

 Egyptien, Cairo (139, 140) ; Qom\i6 Geologique de la Russie, 

 St. Petersburg (139-141) ; Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fen- 

 nica, Helsingfors (139-141); Akademia Umiejetnosci, Krakow, 

 Austria (139-141); Prof. Peter R. von Tunner, Leoben, 

 Austria (139-141) ; Anthropologische Gesellschaft (140, 141) ; 

 Dr. Friedrich S. Krauss, Vienna, Austria (141) ; Naturfor- 

 schende Gesellschaft des Osterlandes, Altenburg (141) ; An- 

 thropologische Gesellschaft, Berlin, Prussia (141) ; Universi- 

 tiits Bibliothek, Bonn, Prussia (141); K. Siichs. Meteorolo- 

 gische Institut, Chemnitz, Saxony (141); Geographische 

 Gesellschaft, Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Hannover, Prussia 

 (140); Naturwissenschaftlicher Yerein fiir Schleswig-Holstein, 

 Kiel, Prussia (140) ; K. Siich. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 

 (137, 141); Prof. I. Victor Carus, Leipzig, Saxony (141); 

 Socidte de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzer- 

 land (140) ; R. Comitato Geologico d'ltalia, R. Accademia dei 

 Lincei, Rome, Italy (141); Musee Guimet (141), Dr. Edward 

 Pepper (139, 140), Paris, France; Royal Society (141, and 



