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[March 21, 



that they be informed that owing to alterations in the plan of the com- 

 memoration, the thanks of the Society are tendered them, but their attend- 

 ance will not be expected. 



Dr. Horn offered the following resolution, which was adopted : 



Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed by the President to 

 examine an oil portrait of Prof. S. F. Baird by Mr. H. Ulke, report on its 

 desirability, and, if favorably, to solicit subscriptions for its purchase at a 

 price not exceeding $200, for the gallery of this Society. 



The President subsequently appointed as such Committee, 

 Dr. George H. Horn and Messrs. J. Sergeant Price and Wil- 

 liam A. Ingham. 



And the Society was adjourned by the presiding member. 



Stated Meeting, March 21, 1890. 

 Present, 30 members. 



President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 



Prof. Robert W. Rogers and Mr. Talcott Williams, lately 

 elected members, were presented to the Chair and took their 

 seats. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Letters from Hon. James T. Mitchell and Mr. Samuel Tim- 

 'mins accepting membership. 



A circular from the University of Toronto, requesting dona- 

 tions to its library, to replace the one destroyed by fire on the 

 14th of February last ; on motion, the Librarian was directed 

 to forward to it such of the Proceedings of the Society as 

 could be sent. 



A letter from the Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Emden, 

 Hannover, thanking the Society for its letter of congratulation 

 on the late celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of its 

 foundation. 



