-'lO [March 7, 



Staled Meeting, March 7, 1879. 



Present, 18 members. 



Vice-President, Mr. E. K. Price, in the Chair. 



A photograph of Sig. Giovanni Capellini, of Bologna, 

 was received. 



A letter declining the appointment to prepare an obituary 

 notice of the late Dr. J. B. Biddle, was received from Mr. II. 

 C. Chapman, dated 2305 Walnut street, February 21, 1879. 



A letter acknowledging the receipt of Byington's Choctaw 

 Grammar in MSS., on loan, was received from Major J. W. 

 Powell, dated Washington, Department of the Interior, 

 March 5, 1879. 



Letters of thanks, acknowledging the safe reception of two 

 volumes of MSS. Lee Papers, on loan, was received from Mr. 

 Justin Winsor, for the Massachusetts Historical Society, 

 dated Cambridge, Gore Hall, February 27, and March 5, 

 1879. 



Letters acknowledging receipt of Proceedings, were re- 

 ceived from the Natural History Society, Frankfurt am M. 

 (100 and List); and the Rantoul Literary Society (102). 



Letters of envoy were received from the Central Physical 

 Observatory, St. Petersburg, Jan., 1879 ; the Natural History 

 Union at Riga, June 15, 1878 ; the Geological Commission, 

 Berne, Nov. 19, 1878 ; the Swiss Society, Berne, Sept., 1878 ; 

 the National Library at Florence ; the Accademia dei Lin- 

 cei, Rome ; and the Meteorological Office in London, Feb. 

 9, 1879. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Victoria, Melbourne ; Imperial Society of 

 Naturalists, Moscow; Natural History Union, Riga ; Central 

 Bureau of Statistics, Stockholm ; Zool. Anzeiger, Leipsig ; 

 Verein fiir Erdkunde, Dresden ; Senkenburg Society, Frank- 

 furt a M.; Oberhess. Gesellschaft Giessen ; Societe Helve- 

 tique, Lausanne ; M. Henri de Saussure, Geneva ; Herr L. 

 Riitimeyer, Zurich; Commission Geologicpue Fed. Berne; R. 



