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Stated Meeting, November 6, 1891. 



Present, 31 members. 

 President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 



Mr. Joseph G. Kosengarten, a newly elected member, was 

 presented to the Chair and took his seat. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



A letter of acceptance of membership from Mr. Joseph G. 

 Rosengarten, Philadelphia. 



A letter from Mr. William Curtis Taylor, requesting ex- 

 changes on behalf of the Tacoma Academy of Science, Ta- 

 coma, Wash. On motion, the Academy was ordered to re- 

 ceive Proceedings from No. 96 and Catalog. 



A letter from Mr. Joseph G. Rosengarten, in behalf of 

 various persons, requesting the Society to accept' their gift of 

 a marble relief portrait of the late Mrs. Emma Seiler, and to 

 fix a time for its formal presentation. On motion of Mr. 

 Dudley, the gift was accepted and the 20th of November was 

 selected. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Societe Imp. 

 Russe de Geographic, St. Petersburg; Institut Meteorologique 

 de Roumanie, Bucharest; Meteorological Office, Royal Statis- 

 tical Society, London; Royal Dublin Society, Royal Irish 

 Academy, Dublin ; Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, Har- 

 risburg ; Theological Seminary, Hartford, Conn. 



Letters of acknowledgment (135) were received from Prof. 

 Serge Nikitin, St. Petersburg ; Anthropologische Gesellschaft, 

 Vienna; Prof. Peter Ritter von Tunner, Leoben, Austria; 

 Prof. Abel Hovelacque, Paris ; Mr. Samuel Timmins, Arley, 

 England; Philosophical Society, University Library, Cam- 

 bridge, England ; Victoria Institute, Linnean Society, Royal 

 Society, Royal Meteorological Society, Messrs. C. Juhlin Dann- 

 feld, P. L. Sclater, London ; Manchester Geographical Society, 

 Philosophical Society, Glasgow ; Prof. Andrew A. Blair, Mr. 



