1879.] 



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members acknowledging the receipt of their copies of the 

 Proceedings (102). 



A letter was received from the Royal Library in Stras- 

 bourg asking for further exchanges and donations. 



A letter was received from Mr. Austin Winsor, Librarian 

 of Harvard College, one of the Committee of the Massachu- 

 setts Historical Society, asking permission to examine and 

 compare the Lee MSS. in the Library with the Lee MSS. 

 in the possession of the Cambridge Library in Gore Hall, 

 and to publish desirable portions of the same. 



On motion it was resolved that the Librarian be author- 

 ized to forward the Lee MSS. to the Committee, with per- 

 mission to publish the same, returning the originals in good 

 order to this Society. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Zoolo- 

 gischer Anzeiger, Leipsig ; the Bordeaux Society of Commer- 

 cial Geography ; Revue Politique, Paris: Mr. Thomas Clark, 

 London; Editors of Nature; Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cornell University; 

 American Chemical Society, and Swedenborg Printing and 

 Publishing Society, Xew York ; Brooklyn Entomological 

 Society; Franklin Institute, and Medical News, Philadel- 

 phia; Smithsonian Institution and Light House Board, 

 Washington; Wisconsin Academy; Geological Survey of 

 Pennsylvania; and the Ministerio de Fomento, Mexico; 

 and in addition to the above, an engraving of a medal, 

 found among Franklin's papers, was presented to the Society 

 by Mr. J. Dickinson Sergeant, 420 Walnut Street, Phila- 

 delphia. 



The death of Prof. Elia Lombardini, of Italy, December 

 19, 1878, aged 84 years (born October, 1794), was announced 

 by the Secretary. 



A communication entitled, "Further Confirmation of Pre- 

 diction, by Pliny Earle Chase," was read by the Secretary. 



A communication from a private letter respecting the 

 great gas well lately struck at Murraysville, in Westmore- 



