^I^ TFeb.6, 



Chester, Scott Co., 111., January 6, respecting mound 

 skulls. 



Donations to the Library were received from the Asiatic 

 Society of Japan ; the Academies at Berlin and Brussels; 

 the Ludwig Salvator Museum, at Dresden ; the Geographi- 

 cal Society and School of Mines, at Paris ; the Geographical 

 Commercial Society, at Bordeaux ; the R. Astronomical 

 Society and Meteorological Society, in London ; the Rev. S. 

 S. Lewis of Cambridge, England ; the Museum of Compar- 

 ative Zoology in Cambridge, Mass. ; the Boston Society of 

 Natural History ; the American Journal of Science and 

 Arts in New Haven; Prof. W. Carrington Bolton; the His- 

 torical Society and American Chemical Society, of New 

 York ; the Poughkeepsie Society of Natural History ; the 

 Pennsylvania Historical Society ; the Franklin Institute ; 

 the American Journal of Pharmacy ; the American Journal 

 of the Medical Sciences and Medical News; Mr. Henry Phil- 

 lips, Jr.; and Dr. B. A. Gould, Director of the Observatory 

 at Cordova, South America. 



The death of the Hon. Adolph E. Borie, at Philadelphia, 

 on the 5th instant, aged 70, was announced by Mr. Price. 



The death of the Rev. Dr. Rudder, at Philadelphia, on the 

 29th ultimo, aged 58, was announced by Mr. Price. 



Prof. Cope exhibited suites of skulls of extinct mammalia 

 (allied to canis, felisand ursus), obtained in the Tertiary de- 

 posits on the Pacific Coast, and described their order of evo- 

 lution. Among them was the skull of a large cave-bear. 



He then read a paper " On the Foramina perforating the 

 posterior part of the Squamosal bone of the Mammalia." 



Now nominations Nos. 893, 894, 895 were read. 



Mr. Fraley reported the receipt of the last quarterly in- 

 terest ou the Michaux Legacy, due Jan. 1, amounting to 

 $132. 



On motion of Mr. Phillips it was 



" "Resolved, That whereas the Society was incorporated on the 15th day 

 of March, 1780, a fact on which the late Mr. Robert M. Patterson laid 



