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[Oct. 18, 



Also receipts for Catalogue, as follows: Boston Public 

 Library (Part III); Amer. Antiquarian Society (Part III) ; 



Wisconsin State Historical Society (Part LIE); Regents of 

 the University of .New York (Purr 1 1 : and the U. S. Naval 

 Observatory (Parts I, II, III). 



A letter requesting exchange of catalogues was received 

 from the Public School Librarian at St. Louis. — On motion 

 tbe exchange was ordered. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Royal Society of 

 New South Wales, Sydney, Sept. 11, 1878; Royal Bavarian 

 Academy, Munich, March 30,1878 ; and Holland Society of 

 Sciences, Harlem, Jan., 1877. 



A letter was received from Mr. Walter White, Assistant 

 Secretary of the Royal Society, dated London, Sept. 23d, 

 1878, presenting a copy in bronze of the newly instituted 

 Davy Medal : and letters from the U. S. Department of State 

 transmitting the same. 



Donations tor the Library were received from the R. 

 Bavarian Academy; R. Accadeniia dei Lincei ; R. Academy 

 ;it Lisbon: Kansas Academy at Topeka ; and Academy at 

 San Francisco; the Department of Mines, Melbourne; Royal 

 Danish Society ; Revue Politique, and M. M. Delesse and 

 Lapparant. Paris: London Nature; Mr. O. Fisher, F. G. S. : 

 Essex Institute ; Boston Society of Natural History; Har- 

 vard College ; American Antiquarian Society ; Yale College; 

 Prof. Geo. J. Brush ; Ed. S. Dana : Lyceum of New York, 

 (N. Y. Academy of Natural Science) : Prof. J. S. Newberry; 

 Polytechnic Review ; Brooklyn Entomological Society ; 

 Franklin Institute; American Journal of the Medical Sci- 

 ences; Medical News and Library; Penn Monthly; Prof. 

 E. D. Cope; Dr. J. B. Cox ; Mr. Edwin A. Barber; U. S. 

 Coast Survey ; [J. S. Engineer Department; Bureau of Edu- 

 cation ; Weather Bureau; University of Virginia; Georgia 

 Historical Society; Kansas Stutc Horticultural Society; 

 Ministerio de Fomento, and Geological and Statistical So- 

 ciety. Mexico; and Ministerio de Fomento, Madrid. 



A bronze medal, a copy of the newly instituted Davv 



