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the late Dr. A. A. Gould, Messrs. Brigham and Wilder were 

 appointed Scrutineers, and the President announced, as the 

 result of a vote, that Mr. T. T. Bouve was unanimously 

 elected. 



The Letters which had been received since the last an- 

 nouncement, were read by the Secretary, as follows : — 



From the American Antiquarian Society, Woi-cester, June 29th, and 

 September 24th, 18G6, the Lyceum of Natural History, New York, De- 

 cember 11th, 1865, and October 8th, 186G, K. mineralon;ische Gesell- 

 schaft zu St. Petersburg, December 22d, 18(55, Naturforschende Gesell- 

 schaft in Bern, Die K. K. Zool. Botan. Gesellschaft in Wien, January, 

 18GG, Societe Iraperiale Geographi(|ue deRussie, St. Petersbourg, Au- 

 gust Gth, 186G, Bataafsch Genootschap der Praefondervindelijlce "Wijsbe- 

 geerte te Rotterdam, October 21st, 1865, Naturforschende Gesell- 

 schaft, Basel, September 15th, K. K. Centralanstalt fiir Meteorologie 

 iiaid Erdmagnetismus, October 5th, 1865, Deutsche geologische Gesell- 

 schaft, Berlin, November 4th, 1865, Director of the Museum at Bergen, 

 Norway, December 16th, 1865, Linnean Society, London, July 20th, 

 1866, Chicago Academy of Sciences, September 25th, 1866, Librarian 

 of the Public School Library, St. Louis, September 25, 1866, Literary 

 and Historical Society, Quebec, October 13th, 1866, Librarian of the 

 Public Library, Boston, October 19th, 1866, Portland Society of 

 Natural History, November 6th, 1866, Smithsonian Listitution, May 

 31st, 1865, December 18th, 1865, January 27th, 1866, April 10th, 

 1866, September 30th, 1866, Royal Society of London, August 27th, 

 1866, Society of Antiquaries, Scotland, September 1866, Mittelrhein- 

 ischer geologischer Verein, Darmstadt, February 6th, 1866, Versamm- 

 lung Deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte, May 25th, 1866, Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, November 8th, 1866, Connecticut Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences, November 12th, 1866, acknowledging the 

 receipt of the publications of the Society. From the Societe d' Agri- 

 culture, Sciences et Arts de la Sarthe, Le Mans, March 23d, 1866, 

 Oberhessische Gesellschaft fiir Natur- und Heilkunde, Giessen, Sep- 

 tember 10th, 1865, Asiatic Society, Calcutta, August 1st, 1865 ; L'Ac- 

 cademia d'Agricoltura, Commercio ed Arti di Verona, December 

 28th, 1865 ; Verein zur Befbrdei-ung des Gartenbaues, Berlin, March 

 30th, 1866, acknowledging the same, and presenting their various 

 publications. From the Mineralogische Gesellschaft, St. Peters- 

 burg, December 20th, 1865 ; Verein fiir Erdkunde, Dresden, April 

 15th, 1866 ; Gelehrte Estnische Gesellschaft, Dorpat, March 5th, 

 1866 ; Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, April 19th, 

 1866 ; E>. Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Ai-ti, Modena, February 



