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Nov. 21. 



Pending nomination 885, and new nominations 886, 887 

 and SSS were read. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, November 21, 1879. 



Present, 12 members. 



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



A photograph of Mr. II. Phillips, Jr., was received for 

 insertion in the album. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the R. 

 Society, Tasmania, Hobartstown, July 17, 1878 (99); from 

 the R. Academy, Lisbon, July 28, 1879 (101); from the R. 

 Observatory, Brussels, Nov. 3 (102, 103); and from the Vic- 

 toria Institute, London, July 2 (102). 



Letters of envoy were received from the Car. University, 

 Lund, Aug. 15 ; K. Saxon Society, Leipsig, May 29 ; Hol- 

 land Society, Harlem, June 10 ; and the Second Geological 

 Survey of Pennsylvania, Nov. 17, 1879. 



A letter, offering on the part of the family of the late 

 Joseph Henry to restore for use to the Society back num- 

 bers of the Proceedings, was received from Prof. Baird, 

 dated Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Nov. 15. 



Donations for the Library were received from the 

 Academies at St. Petersburg, Berlin, Bordeaux, Madrid, 

 Lisbon and Dublin ; the Observatory at Adelaide ; the Uni- 

 versity at Lund ; the R. Societies at Hobartstown, Leipsig, 

 Gottingen and London ; the Anthropological and Geograph- 

 ical Societies, Geological and Meteorological Institutes at 

 Vienna; the German Geological Society; Jablownowski 

 Society and Natural History Society at Leipsig; the Natural 

 History Society at Bonn; Zoological Garden at Frankfurt ; 

 Holland Society at Harlem; Geographical and Anthropo- 

 logical Societies, and Revue Politique, Paris; Physical, Geo- 

 graphical and Linnsean Societies at Bordeaux; Zoological, 

 Geographical, Meteorological and Astronomical Societies, 



