1890.] 105 



Stated Meeting, May 16 } 1890. 



Present, 22 members. 

 President, Mr. FKALEY, in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Letters of envoy were received from the Observatoire Phy- 

 sique Central, St. Petersburg; Koyal Observatory, Greenwich ; 

 Literary and Philosophical Society, Liverpool. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Institut 

 Egyptien, Cairo (128, 129, 130) ; Bureau des Longitudes, Paris 

 (126) ; Library of the University of California, Berkeley (126, 

 127, 129, 130). 



Letters of acknowledgment (130) were received from Socie- 

 tas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, Prof. Otto Donner, Helsing- 

 fors, Finland; Comite Geologique de la Kussie, Observatoire 

 Physique Central, Prof. Serge Nikitin, St. Petersburg; K. 

 Zoologisch Genootschap, Amsterdam ; K. Zoologisch-Botanisch 

 Genootschap, The Hague; Bataafsch Genootschap der Proe- 

 fondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte, Kotterdam ; Prof. Dr. Japetus 

 Steenstrup, Copenhagen ; Societe Yaudoise des Sciences Natu- 

 relles, Lausanne ; K. Bibliothek, Berlin ; Yerein fur Erdkunde, 

 Dresden ; Editor of " Cosmos," Mr. A. Des Cloezeaux, Comte 

 Hyacinthe de Charencey, St. Maurice-les-Charencey, Paris ; 

 Koyal Dublin Society, Dublin ; Cambridge Philosophical So- 

 ciety, Cambridge, England ; Dr. John Evans-Hemel, Hemp- 

 stead ; Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, Chevi- 

 nedge, Halifax, England ; Eoyal Institution, Local Government 

 Board, Dr. Joseph D. Hooker, Sir John Lubbock, London; 

 Mr. Joseph S. Harris, Philadelphia. 



Accessions to the Library were reported from the Linnean 

 Society, K S. Wales ; Anthropological Society, Tokyo ; So- 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXYITI. 132. H. PRINTED MAT 26, 1890. 



