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On motion the report was accepted and an appropriation 
of one hundred dollars ($100) was made to meet the ex- 
penses indicated therein. 
On motion of Dr. Rushenberger it was 
Resolved, That the Curators be requested to inquire into the expediency 
of depositing the collection of implements illustrative of the Stone Age, 
bequeathed to the A. P. Society by the late Mr. Franklin Peale, in care of 
the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
And the meeting was adjourned. 
Stated Meeting, October 5th, 1877. 
Present, 12 members. : 
Vice-President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Tey- 
ler Museum at Harlem (96, 98, 99); and the Glasgow Phil. 
Society (99). 
Letters of envoy were received from the Depart. of Inte- 
rior, Washington, September 27; and the Museum at Mex- 
ico, August 18,1877. » 
Donations for the Library were received from the Society 
at Ulm; the Academy at Brussels; the Révue Politique; 
British Association; Geological Society, Meteorological 
Society, and London Nature; from the Essex Institute ; Bos- 
ton 8. N. H.; Silliman and Dana; Cornell University ; 
Franklin Institute ; College of Pharmacy; Dep. Interior and 
Signal Service Office; and the Museum and Observatory in 
Mexico. 
The death of M. U. J. J. LeVerrier, at Paris, September 
28,1877, aged 66 years, was announced. 
A communication entitled: “ Level Notes and Compass 
Courses of the Seaboard Pipe Line, from the mouth of Black 
Fox run, Clarion county, Pa., to Patapsco river, near Balti- 
more, Md. Lines run by O. Barrett, Jr., C. E. Western 
Division; B. F. Warren, C. E. Middle Division; J. B. 
