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Stated Meeting, Deeember 19, 1879. 



Present, 10 members. 



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



A letter of acknowledgment and envoy was received 

 from the Linnsean Society, London, Oct. 20 (99, 100, 101 ; 

 XV, 2). 



Letters of envoy were received from the Batavian Society 

 of Arts and Sciences, Feb. 23, 1877, and April 15, 1878 ; 

 from the Royal Observatory, Brussels, April, 1879; from 

 the Bunker Hill Monument Association, Boston ; and from 

 the Society of Geography and Statistics, Mexico, Nov. 17, 

 1879. 



A letter requesting cabinet exchanges was received from 

 the Bridgeport Scientific Society, Conn., Nov. 20, 1879. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Asiatic 

 Society of Japan ; Royal Society,' Victoria; Batavian Socie- 

 ty, Batavia ; M. Joachim Barrande, Prag ; the Academies 

 at Berlin, Munich, Brussels, and Philadelphia ; the German 

 Geological Society ; Zoologische Anzeiger, Leipsig ; Socie- 

 ties at Bonn, St. Gall, Cherbourg, Cambridge (England) ; 

 the Commercial Geographical Society at Bordeaux ; Geo- 

 graphical and Statistical Society, Mexico; Geographical 

 Society, Paris ; Geological, Geographical, Zoological, Lin- 

 nsean, and Antiquarian Societies, Victoria Institute and 

 Nature, in London ; Dumfrieshire and Galloway A. N. H. 

 Society ; Bunker Hill Monument Association and Natural 

 History Society, Boston ; Silliman's Journal ; Brooklyn 

 Entomological Society ; Journal of Pharmacy, Medical 

 News, and Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia ; Peabody 

 Institute, Baltimore ; Smithsonian Institution ; Milwaukee 

 Public Library ; and National Museum, Mexico. 



A bronze medal for the cabinet was received from the 



