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of the Geological Survey of India, and of Pror. R. T. Matter, of 
England. 
Mr. Cox, President of the Council of the Scientific Alliance of 
New York, reported the publication of a Bulletin announcing the 
October Meetings of the six Societies within the Alliance. He 
spoke of the awakened public spirit in New York City as shown in 
recent splendid private gifts, and hoped the day was coming when 
the Scientific societies would have a home of their own. 
Pror. Martrn reported that the Audubon Monument Committee 
had secured nearly the entire amount required. 
The Recording Secretary reported the forwardness of the TRANs- 
ACTIONS and the publication of the Blue Book of the Academy. 
Mr. Kunz stated that the Tariff does not recognize objects of 
ethnology nor archeology, and a great tax was imposed on importers. 
Pror. Martin proposed that a Committee be appointed to 
formulate a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury 
to remedy this evil. Carried. 
Meeting adjourned. 
October 12th, 1891. 
STatTED MEETING. 
Progr. D, 8. Martin in the Chair. About twenty persons present. 
The minutes of the previous meeting (October 5th) were read 
and approved. 
The Secretary announced the nomination of Mr. CHARLES 
PROTEUS STEINMETZ as a Resident Member by Dr. Fiske, 
Pror. Martin presented a communication asking for contribu- 
tions to a proposed fund for the purpose of establishing the Leidy 
Memorial Museum, as an independent part of the great museum 
now forming at the University of Pennsylvania; the amount de- 
sired being $50,000. 
The Secretary read a letter from the Vice-President of the Royal 
Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, announcing the death of the Secre- 
tary, José Marta Latino Coetno. 
The Secretary exhibited a number of plates accompanying a 
paper from the Société de l’ Industrie Minérale, and entitled ‘‘ Etudes 
sur le terrain houille de Commentry.”? The plates are in elephant 
folio, and of great beauty. 
