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heightened by the perusal of these tokens which serve as a connecting link 

 between those who live this day and have their being and those who lived 

 three thousand years ago, who saw these works of art as they issued forth 

 fresh from the coiner's hand ; who ate, who drank, who slept, who died while 

 these coins were still in their first infancy. Strange customs and curious 

 ethnological facts, traits and coineidences have been displayed or developed 

 upon coins, the records of the earth verified and brought to light. The 

 world's epitome is here ; history, geography, philosophy, religion, all bear 

 their part. 



Thrice happy he the gifted mortal who can lift the veil and read the 

 secrets of the dusky night. 



Stated Meeting, February 21, 1879. 



Present, 8 members. 



Vice-President, Eli K. Price, in the Chair. 



Photographs for the album were received from Air. John 

 Ericsson, and Mr. William Ewing Dubois. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Rev. F. C. Ager, 

 Secretary A. Swcdenborg Printing and Publishing House, 

 New York ; from the Board of Commissioners of the Second 

 Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, and from the Meteoro- 

 logical Office of the Royal Society, London. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the 

 Museum of Comp. Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (102) ; 

 the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (102); the American 

 Chemical Society, No. 11 East Fourteenth Street, New York 

 City (65 to 102 inclusive) ; from Mr. William Bower Taylor, 

 457 C. Street, Washington (102); Wisconsin State Historical 

 Society, Madison (102); Royal Geological Society of Ireland 

 (100 and List) ; West Chester Philosophical Society (65 to 

 102 inclusive); New Hampshire Historical Society (102); 

 Poughkecp.-ae Society of Natural History (102) ; Rhode 

 Island Historical Society (102); Numismatic and Antiqua- 

 rian Society, Philadelphia (102); New Jersey Historical So- 

 ciety (102); Georgia Historical Society (102); Davenport 

 Academy of Natural Science (101, 102), and from numerous 



