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Donations for the Library were received from the Asiatic 

 Society of Japan ; the Minister of Mines, Melbourne ; the 

 Government of South Australia; Imperial Academy of 

 Russia ; Society of Natural History, Moscow ; German Ge- 

 ological Society, Berlin; Zoologische Garten, Frankfurt; 

 Natural History Society in Freiberg im Breisgau ; N. L. 

 Magazin, Gorlitz ; Zoological Society in Amsterdam ; Royal 

 Astronomical Society, Meteorological Office, Meteorological 

 Society, and Nature, in London ; Philosophical Society of 

 Glasgow ; Royal Irish Academy ; American Journal, and 

 Yale College, New Haven ; Franklin Institute, Medical 

 News, American Journal of Pharmacy, and Robinson's 

 Epitomy of Literature, in Philadelphia; National Museum, 

 and Ministerio de Fomento in Mexico; and Prof. Saenz at 

 Bogota. 



Dr. Barker, pursuant to notice, described the location, ap- 

 paratus, personnel, methods, and results of the Solar Eclipse 

 observations of July 29, last, at Rawlins, and exhibited 

 photographs, and the tazimeter used by Mr. Edison, who 

 was of the party. 



Dr. McQuillen described the vivisection and subsequent 

 post mortem dissection of the brain of a pigeon (See min- 

 utes, Proc. Vol. XVII, page 314) which lived six months 

 between the operations; and introduced Dr. Carl Seller, who 

 described the methods of obtaining slices and mounting 

 them and exhibited such slices in a microscope. 



A communication was received entitled " On some of the 

 Characters of the Miocene Fauna of Oregon. By E. D. 

 Cope." 



The following resolution was offered by Curator Dr. Cres- 

 son, seconded in writing by Curator Dr. Brinton,and put to 

 the meeting and passed. 



Resolved, That the Curators of the Society he directed to make arrange 

 merits through the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, 

 for the deposit of the collection of Coins and Medals, belonging to the So- 

 ciety, in the Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial Art, under agreement 

 that the said collection be properly catalogued and displayed and returned 

 on demand. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



