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England Society and Southern Counties Association, Bath; 

 Meteorological Office, London. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Koyal 

 Society of New South Wales, Sydney (129) ; Academic Royale 

 Danoise des Sciences, etc., Copenhagen (128, 129); Natural 

 History Society, Montreal (129, 130); Sociedad Cientifica 

 " Alzate," Mexico (129, 130). 



Letters of acknowledgment (130) were received from the K. 

 K. Central- Anstalt fur Meteorologie, etc., Wien; Naturfor- 

 schende Gesellschaft, Emden; Naturwissenschaftliche Gesell- 

 schaft " Isis," Dresden ; Dr. Julius Platzmann, Leipzig ; So- 

 ciete Linneenne de Bordeaux ; Societe de Borda, Dax ; Societe 

 d'Anthropologie, Profs. Abel Hovelacque, Leon de Eosny, 

 Kemi Sime'on, Paris ; Geological and Natural History Survey, 

 Ottawa, Canada ; Mr. Talcott Williams, Philadelphia ; Prof. 

 S. P. Langley, Washington, D. C. ; California Academy of 

 Sciences, San Francisco. 



A letter of acknowledgment for diploma was received from 

 Prof. Dr. Hugo Yon Meltzel, Koloszvar, Hungary. 



A letter of acknowledgment, Transactions, Yol. xvi, Part 

 iii, was received from the San Francisco Free Public Library, 

 San Francisco, Cal. 



A letter from Daniel F. Wolf, suggesting that the tombstone 

 of Franklin should be re-lettered and a bronze tablet placed on 

 the graveyard wall with a suitable inscription. 



The following letter from M. P. Massion (Notaire, Boule- 

 vard Haussmann, 58, Paris, France) was read : 

 



P. MASSION, PARIS, le 31 Mars, 1890. 



NOTAIRE, 



SUCCESSEUB DE SON PERE 



58, BOULEVARD HAUSSMANN. 



MONSIEUR LE PRESIDENT : 



J'ai 1'honneur de vous informer qu'aux termes de son testament depose 

 en mon etude, Monsieur Auguste Carlier, decede en son domicile a Paris, 

 rue de Berlin, N- 12, le 16 Mars courant, a legue a la Societe Philosoph- 

 ique de Philadelphie, dont il etait niembre, une somme de vingt mille 

 francs. Cette Societe en fera 1'usage qu'elle jugera convenable pour 

 1'aider dans ses travaux. 



