1879.] '>°>J 



Mr. Lesley exhibited a mounted set of uncolored proof 

 sheets of the contour curve map of Morrison's Cove, Canoe 

 Valley and contiguous region to the west, extending to' the 

 crest of the Alleghany Mountain, in Blair County, surveyed 

 and drawn hy Mr. H. N. Sanders, Assistant Geologist on 

 the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, and executed 

 on stone by Mr. Julius Bien, of New York, for publication 

 in Report of Progress T, by Mr. Franklin Piatt, Assistant 

 Geologist. He pointed out its most striking topographical 

 and geological features. 



Pending nomination No. 885 was read. 



On motion, the Librarian was authorized to complete the 

 printing of the Catalogue. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



Staled Meeting, October 17, 1879. 



Present, 18 members. 



Vice-President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Bel- 

 gian Academy (102, 103) and the Royal Zoological Society 

 in Amsterdam (102, 103). 



Donations for the Library were received from the Victoria 

 Mining Bureau ; Russian Academy ; Revue Politique; Vic- 

 toria Institute ; Royal Asiatic Society ; Cobden Club ; Har- 

 vard College ; Silliman's Journal ; Prof. Newberry ; En- 

 gineering and Mining Journal ; North American Entomol- 

 ogist ; Franklin Institute ; Journal of the Medical Sciences ; 

 Medical News; U. S. Departments of the Navy and Educa- 

 tion ; Mr. A. R. Grote ; Mr. Philip II. Law, and the Mini- 

 sterio de Fomento. 



The death of Henry C. Carey, at Philadelphia, on the 

 13th inst., in the 86th year of his age, was announced by 

 Mr. Fraley ; and, on motion, Prof. Robert Ellis Thompson, 



