4Lo [March 5, 



Survey of India, dated Dehra Dun, Jan. 20 ; the Natural 

 History Society, dated Emden, Nov. 15 ; the Royal Saxon 

 Society, dated Lcipsig, Oct. 25 ; the Imperial Academy, 

 dated Vienna, Dec. 1 ; the Societe Ilollandaise, dated Harlem, 

 Dec. ; the U. S. Naval Observatory, and Department of the 

 Interior, dated Washington, Feb. 19. 



A letter respecting Dr. Gabb's memoir was received from 

 Mr. R. S. Swords, acting Librarian of the New Jersey His- 

 torical Society, dated Newark, March 3. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Mining 

 Bureau at Victoria; the Repertorium -fur Meteorologie at 

 St. Petersburg; the Academies at Berlin, Vienna, Rome, 

 and Brussels ; the Societies at Moscow, Stuttgardt, Halle, 

 Giessen, Emden, Bordeaux, Liege, and Harlem ; the Swedish 

 Bureau of Statistics; the German Geological Society at 

 Berlin ; the Geological Association at Dresden ; the Revue 

 Politique ; the Grand Ducal Institute at Luxembourg ; the 

 Minister of the Interior at Brussels ; the London Astro- 

 nomical, Geographical and Meteorological Societies ; Society 

 of Arts, and London Nature ; the Essex Institute ; the New 

 York Academy of Sciences ; the Brooklyn Entomological 

 Society ; the North American Entomologist ; Dr. Wm. 

 Elder; Mr. W. B. Taylor; the IT. S. Department of the 

 Interior; the Army Bureau; the Journal of Pharmacy, 

 at Philadelphia ; the Cincinnati Observatory ; the St. Louis 

 Public School Library ; the Kansas Historical Society ; and 

 the San Francisco Mercantile Library Association. 



An obituary notice of the late John W. Harden was read 

 by Mr. Lesley. 



The death of Gen'l Clement A. Finley, in West Philadel- 

 phia, September, 1879, was announced by the Secretary. 



On motion the committee on the paper of X. Y. Z. for the 

 Magellanic premium, was entrusted with the care of the 

 document for examination, to report. 



Mr. Ashburner exhibited specimens and photographs of 

 Oil Sands, and read a paper on the constitution of the Brad- 



