1890.] 



Stated Meeting, May 2, 1890. 



Present 14 members. 

 President, Mr. FKALEY, in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



The annual program of the R. Academia Nederlandica, ex 

 legato Hoeufftiano, for 1891 was presented. 



Letters of envoy were received from the K. P. Meteorolo- 

 gisches Institut, Berlin ; Mr. Clifford P. MacCalla, Philadel- 

 phia ; Smithsonian Institution, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, Washington. 



A letter of acknowledgment (Transactions xvi, 3) was re- 

 ceived from the Geological and Natural History Survey, 

 Ottawa, Canada. 



Letters of acknowledgment (129) were received from the K. 

 K. Sternwarte, Prag; Drs. Friederich Muller, Dionys Stur, 

 Edward Suess, Vienna. 



Letters of acknowledgment (130) were received from Drs. 

 Friederich S. Krauss, Yienna ; Naturforschende Gesellschaft 

 des Osterlandes, Altenburg; Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, 

 Hannover; K. Sachsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 

 Leipzig; Yerein fur Yaterlandische Naturkunde, Wurtem- 

 berg ; Royal Society, Royal Meteorological, Royal Astronom- 

 ical Societies, Linnean Society, Society of Antiquaries, Lon- 

 don ; University Library, Cambridge, England. 



The Tokyo Anthropological Society was placed on the 

 exchange list to receive Proceedings from 119. 



A letter from Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Converse (New York 

 city, N. Y., April 28, 1890), soliciting subscriptions for a mon- 

 ument to Red Jacket, was read. 



The following letter was read : 



1325 WALNUT STREET. 



To THE HONORABLE FREDERICK FRALEY, AND THE MEMBERS OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY : 



Gentlemen : I have the honor to offer for your acceptance, the portrait 

 of my brother, the late Henry M. Phillips, formerly a. member of your 

 Society, in whose memory The Prize Essay Fund was established. 



Very respectfully, 



EMILY PHILLIPS. 

 PHILADELPHIA, May 1, 1890. 



