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The Secretary .innounccd the following con-cspon- 

 deiicc : — 



From American Geosvapliiral Societj', Sept. 18; Belfast Naturalists' Field Club; 

 Brooklyn Mercantile Library Association. Oct. 8; Buflalo Historical Society, .Sept. 

 12; Eiliiiburjrh Koyal Society, March; Iowa State Historical Society, Aug. :i; Leeds 

 Philosoi)hical and Literary Society, Sept. 1; London Society of Antiquaries, Aug. 

 31; Minnesota Historical Society, Aug. 2-2; Maryland Historical Society, Aug. 13; 

 Moravian Historical Society, Aug. 9; New Jersey Historical Society, Aug. ."iO, Sept. 

 3; New York, Cooper Union, Sept. (!, Oct. 1.5; New York Genealogical and Bio- 

 graphical Society, Aug. 21; New Y'ork Lyceum of Natural History, Oct. 7; New 

 York State, Aug. 30; Ohio Historical and Philosoiihical Society, Aug. ."i, Sept. 6; 

 Y'ale College, Corporation, Sept 23; Ammiden, P. R., Boston, Ang. 22; Anthony, 

 11. B., Providence, Aug. 8; Babson, J. J., Gloucester, Aug. 12; Boow. E. P., New 

 Y'ork. Sept. 28, Oct. i, 17; Chever, D. A., Denver, Col., Oct. 13; Clark, B. H., Koch- 

 ester, N. Y'., Sept. 20; Crocker, Chs. F., Lawrence, Aug. 17; Cram, Milo T., Hol- 

 yoke, Mass., Aug. 19; Dall, C. H., Boston, Oct. 11 ; Drake, S. G., Boston, Sept. 13; 

 Frary, Lucius H., Middleton, Sept. 3; Hanaford, P. A., New Haven, Conn., Sept_ 

 23; Higginson, T. W., Newport, R. I., Oct. 20; Hough, F. B., Lowville, N. Y'.. Aug.' 

 7; Marston & Prince, Lowell, Aug. 20; Perry, W. S., Geneva, N. Y'., Oct. 1; 

 Roundy, Henry, Salem, Sept. 28; Tenable, J. E., Paducah, Ky., Sept. 16; Yeomans, 

 W. II., Columbia, Conn., Aug. 8, Oct. 17. 



A letter was read from W. A. Williams, engineer on 

 the Copinpo Railroad, to Capt. Robert INIanning, accom- 

 panying a box of fossil shells and radiates, some found 

 above the sea at Caldera, in extensive beds, at four hun- 

 dred feet above sea level ; the others at Molle, about one 

 hundred miles from the coast, at a height of live thousand 

 feet above the sea, where the ground is strewed with them. 



Daniel Varney, Charles Baker and Catherine T. AA'oods, 

 all of Salem, were elected resident members. 



Dr. J. L. Smith, Louisville, K}'. ; Prof. E. B. Andrews, 

 Marietta, Ohio ; Prof. E. T. Cox, Indianapolis, Ind. ; Dr. 

 G. M. Levette, Indianapolis, Ind. ; J. Collett, Esq., Eu- 

 gene, Vermilion Co., Ind. ; Prof. C. A. White, Iowa City, 

 Iowa ; J. L. Waters, Esq., Chicago, 111. ; Col. J. AV. Fos- 

 ter, Chicago, 111. ; Prof. C. G. Swallow, Columbia, Mo. ; 

 Piof. J. S. Newberry, New York, N. Y. ; Prof. A. Win- 

 chell, Ann Arbor, Mich. ; Prof. Raphael Pumpelly, Cam- 

 bridge, were elected corresponding members. ■ 



