[March -7 , 



Stated Meeting, March 7, 1890. 



Present, 10 members. 

 Mr. RICHAKD VAUX in the Chair. 



Prof. Henry Willis, a newly elected member, was presented 

 to the Chair and took his seat. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows: 



Letters accepting membership from Prof. Robert W. Rogers 

 and from Prof. Henry Willis, Philadelphia. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Museo Nacional de 

 Buenos Aires ; Royal Statistical Society, London. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from Sir J. W. 

 Dawson, Montreal (130); University of Pennsylvania (129, 

 130), Mrs. Helen Abbott Michael (130), Prof. Henry D. 

 Gregory (130), Philadelphia; Maryland Historical Society, 

 Baltimore (130). 



A letter from the Department of State in. reference to cer- 

 tain MSS. in the possession of the Society was ordered to be 

 filed. 



A letter was read from E. Frank Carson, requesting the loan 

 of the Society's Hall for an approaching reunion of the Ritten- 

 house family, to be held April 8, 1890, being the 168th anni- 

 versary of his birth ; and also requesting that the Society 

 should be represented on the occasion, which, on motion, was 

 referred to the President with power to act. 



Accessions to the Library were reported from the Academic 

 des Sciences, Cracow, Austria ; Section fur Naturkunde, 6 

 C., Vienna ; Verein fur Liibeckische Geschichte und Alter - 

 thumskunde, Liibeck", Germany ; Societe Hollandaise des Sci- 

 ences, Harlem, Holland; Philological Society, Cambridge, 

 England ; Rousdon Observatory, Devon, England ; Geological, 

 Royal Statistical Societies, London ; Geological and Natura 

 History Survey of Canada, Montreal; Harvard University, 

 Cambridge, Mass.; Mr. Charles J. Hoadley, Hartford, Conn.; 

 Prof. Robert W. Rogers, Philadelphia ; Wyoming Historical 

 Society, Wilkes-Barre ; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore ; 



