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The Corresponding Secretary read the following list 

 of letters recently received : — 



Elliott Society of Natural History, Charleston, S. C. ; Ethno- 

 logical Society, London, January 31, 1857 ; K. Bayerische 

 Akademie der Wissenschaften, February 4, 1857 ; Imperial 

 Mineralogical Society of St. Petersbui-g, November 30, 1856; 

 Verein fur Vaterlandische Naturkunde in Wurtemberg, January 

 20, 1857 ; Accademia, &c., di Bologna, May 29, 1856 ; Royal 

 Geographical Society, London, November 29, 1856, acknowledg- 

 ing the receipt of the Society's publications ; also from the last 

 five above-named institutions, presenting various publications, as 

 well as from the Naturforschende Gesellschaft zu Elmden, October 

 2, 1856. 



Messrs. Archelaus Wilson of Boston, and R. H. Barn- 

 well of the Scientific School, were elected Resident 

 Members. 



June 17, 1857. 



Dr. D. H. Storer, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Committee appointed to prepare Resolutions, 

 expressive of the sentiments of the Society in recognition 

 of the donation by Benjamin D.^ Greene, Esq., of his 

 Botanical Collection, submitted the following, which 

 were unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That this Society is deeply sensible of the active 

 sympathy which has ever been exhibited in its welfare by its 

 first President, Benjamin D. Greene, Esq., — -a sympathy which 

 has led him to bestow upon the Society his extensive and valu- 

 able Herbarium, the fruit of a long lifetime devoted to the culti- 

 vation of botanical science, to a diligent accumulation of the 



