[Feb. 21, 



Stated Meeting, February 21, 1890. 

 Present, 23 members. 



President, Mr. FKALEY, in the Chair. 



Letters of eovoy were received from the Nova Scotian 

 Institute of Natural Science, Halifax ; Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. ; Department of the Interior, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Natur- 

 wissenschaftlicher Yerein, Bremen (129) ; Entomological So- 

 ciety, Brooklyn (130) ; University of the City of New 

 York (130); Prof. Henry M. Baird, Yonkers (130); Dr. 

 Charles C. Abbott, Trenton, N. J. (130); Dr. F. A. Genth, 

 Prof. Lewis M. Haupt, Dr. George H. Horn, John Marshall, 

 Hon. Henry Reed (130), Prof. John A. Ryder, Philadelphia 

 (125, 130); State Historical Society, Topeka, Kans. (130); 

 University of California, Prof. John Le Conte, Berkeley, Cal. 

 (130) ; Mr. George Davidson, San Francisco, Cal. (130). 



A circular from the Sociedade de Geografia, of Lisbon, em- 

 bodying a protest against the English aggressions in Africa. 



The Section fur Naturkunde des (Esterreichen-Touristen 

 Club was placed on the Society's exchange list to receive 

 Proceedings from No. 130. 



Accessions to the Library were announced from the Geolog- 

 ical Survey of India, Calcutta; K. K. Sternwarte, Prag; 

 Anthropologische Gesellschaft, Yienna ; Yerein fur Erdkunde, 

 Metz ; Statistika Central Byran, Stockholm ; Prof. Lorenzo 

 M. Billia, Turin ; Societe D'Ethnographie, Ministere des Tra- 

 vaux Publics, Mr. Henry Carnoy, Paris ; Royal Society, Lon- 

 don ; Mr. William H. Whitmore, Boston ; Harvard Univer- 

 sity, Cambridge, Mass. ; Yale University, New Haven ; Astor 

 Library, New York ; State Museum of Natural History, 

 Albany; Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Editor of 

 " American Notes and Queries," Dr. George H. Horn, Mr. 

 Heury Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia ; Johns Hopkins University, 



