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The SECRETARY announced the following correspon- 

 dence : 



From American Geographical Society, Sept. 18; Belfast Naturalists' Field Club ; 

 Brooklyn Mercantile Library Association, Oct. 8; Buffalo Historical Society, Sept. 

 12; Edinburgh Royal Society, March; Iowa State Historical Society, Aug. 3; Leeds 

 Philosophical and Literary Society, Sept. 4; London Society of Antiquaries, Aug. 

 31; Minnesota Historical Society, Aug. 22; Maryland Historical Society, Aug. 12 ; 

 Moravian Historical Society, Aug. 9; New Jersey Historical Society, Aug. 30, Sept. 

 3; New York, Cooper Union, Sept. 6, Oct. 15; New York Genealogical and Bio- 

 graphical Society, Aug. 21; New York Lyceum of Natural History, Oct. 7; New 

 York State, Aug. 30 ; Ohio Historical and Philosophical Society, Aug. 5, Sept. 6; 

 Yale College, Corporation, Sept 23; Ammiden, P. R., Boston, Aug. 22; Anthony, 

 H. B., Providence, Aug. 8; Babson, J. J., Gloucester, Aug. 12; Boow, E. P., New 

 York, Sept. 28, Oct. 4, 17; Chever, D. A., Denver, Col., Oct. 13; Clark, B. H., Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., Sept. 20; Crocker, Chs. F., Lawrence, Aug. 17; Cram, Milo T., Hoi- 

 yoke, Mass., Aug. 19; Dall, C. H., Boston, Oct. 11; Drake, S. G., Boston, Sept. 13; 

 Frary, Lucius H., Middleton, Sept. 3; Hanaford, P. A., New Haven, Conn., Sept 

 23; Higginson, T. W., Newport, R. I., Oct. 20; Hough, F. B., Lowville, N. Y., Aug.' 

 7; Marston & Prince, Lowell, Aug. 20; Perry, W. S., Geneva, N. Y., Oct. 1; 

 Roundy, Henry, Salem, Sept. 28; Venable, J. E., Paducah, Ky., Sept. 16; Yeomans, 

 W. H., Columbia, Conn., Aug. 8, Oct. 17. 



A letter was read from W. A. WILLIAMS, engineer on 

 the Copiapo Eailroad, to Capt. Robert Manning, accom- 

 panying a box of fossil shells and radiates, some found 

 above the sea at Caldera, in extensive beds, at four hun- 

 dred feet above sea level ; the others at Molle, about one 

 hundred miles from the coast, at a height of five thousand 

 feet above the sea, where the ground is strewed with them. 



Daniel Varney, Charles Baker and Catherine T. Woods, 

 all of Salem, were elected resident members. 



Dr. J. L. Smith, Louisville, Ky. ; Prof. E. B. Andrews, 

 Marietta, Ohio ; Prof. E. T. Cox, Indianapolis, Ind. ; Dr. 

 G. M. Levette, Indianapolis, Ind. ; J. Collett, Esq., Eu- 

 gene, Vermilion Co., Ind. ; Prof. C. A. White, Iowa City, 

 Iowa ; J. L. Waters, Esq., Chicago, 111. ; Col. J. W. Fos- 

 ter, Chicago, 111. ; Prof. C. G. Swallow, Columbia,- Mo. ; 

 Prof. J. S. Newberry, New York, N. Y. ; Prof. A. Win- 

 chell, Ann Arbor, Mich. ; Prof. Raphael Pumpelly, Cam- 

 bridge, were elected corresponding members. 



