''Mr | Dcc.r., 



Pending nominations 885 to 888, and new nomination 

 889 were read. 



Mr. Fralcy reported the receipt of $131.81, being the last 

 quarterly interest on the Miehaux Legacy fund, due Oct. 1. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, December 5, 1879. 



Present, 13 members. 



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



A letter enclosing a photograph for insertion in the album 

 was received from Prof. Richard Akerman, dated Stock- 

 holm, Nov. 13, 1879. 



An acknowledgment of the receipt of Proc. No. 103, was 

 received from Professor J. J. Stevenson, dated New York, 

 Nov. 28. 



A letter of envoy was received from the Central Physical 

 Observatory at St. Petersburg, dated Oct. 1879. 



A letter was received from the Cleveland Library Asso- 

 ciation requesting exchanges. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Senk- 

 enburg Society of Natural Sciences; Revue Politique; Com- 

 mercial Geographical Society, Bordeaux; London Nature; 

 Geological Survey of Canada; Boston Society of Natural 

 History; Yale College; Mr. Redfield, of Philadelphia; the 

 Botanical Gazette; North American Entomologist; and the 

 Ministerio de Fomento, Mexico. 



The death of M. Michel Chevalier, at Paris, Nov. 28, aged 

 73, was announced by the Secretary. 



Mr. Moncure Robinson was appointed to prepare an 

 obituar}' notice of the deceased. 



Mr. Lesley exhibited a slab of roofing slate covered with 

 casts of JButkotrephis jlexuosa, obtained by Prof. Frazer for 

 the Museum of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsyl- 

 vania, from the Rev. Prof. Rendall, of Lincoln University, 



