1878.] •' 



April 29, 1878 ; Physical Society at Berlin, June 15, 1878 ; 

 Holland Society of Sciences at Harlem, July, 1878; Royal 

 Academy of Lisbon, February 7, 1878 ; Meteorological Office 

 at London, July, 1878 ; Secretary of State of New Hamp- 

 shire, August 10, 1878 ; Harvard College Observatory, Cam- 

 bridge, August, 17, 1878 ; Second Geological Survey of Penn- 

 sylvania, September 5, 1878 ; Coast Survey Office at Wash- 

 ington, August 17, 1878 ; Office of the Chief of Engineers, 

 Washington, September 3,1878; Department of the Inte- 

 rior, Washington, July 24, 1878 ; * Department of State at 

 Washington, August 31, 1878 ; the Argentine National Ob- 

 servatory, April, 1878 ; and from the Argentine Scientific 

 Society, Buenos Ayres. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Mining 

 Surveyors and Registrars of Victoria ; Royal Academies at 

 Berlin and at Brussels; Natural History Societies at Riga, 

 Offenbach am M., Bremen and Boston ; Anthropological So- 

 ciety, and Geological Institute at Vienna; Physical Society 

 at Berlin ; Holland Society at Harlem ; Geographical Society 

 and Revue Politique at Paris ; Geographical Commercial 

 Society at Bordeaux; Royal Geographical, Geological, An- 

 tiquarian, Zoological and Metereological Societies of London ; 

 Meteorological Office of the Royal Society ; Prof. Richard 

 Owen, and London Nature; Joseph Gurney Barclay, Esq. 

 Peyton, Essex, Eng. ; Geological Survey of New Hampshire; 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology and Peabody Museum in 

 Cambridge, Mass. ; American Journal of Science and Art ; 

 Mr. Henry T. Eddy, of Princeton, N. J. ; Princeton College ; 

 Franklin Institute ; Journal of Pharmacy, Medical News, 

 Penu Monthly; Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania ; 

 American Journal Mathematics, Baltimore; Mr. Asaph Hall, 

 of Washington ; Kansas- Agricultural Report, Topeka ; Geo- 

 graphical and Statistical Society, Mexico; Ministcrio de 

 Fomento, Mexico ; and the Argentine Scientific Society in 

 Buenos Ayres. 



Also previously, and not noted, from the Royal Danish 



* Cartas de Indias from the Government of Spain. 



