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port Academy of Sciences be placed on the List of Corres- 
pondents to receive the Proceedings from the year 1870 
onwards. 
And the meeting was adjourned. 
Stated Meeting, September 21st, 1877. 
Present, 12 members. 
Vice-President, Mr. Frauey, in the Chair. 
Visitor, Mr. A. E. Carpenter, of Philadelphia. 
Letters accepting membership were received from Mr. 
John Hriesson, dated New York, July 1; from Mr. H. C. 
Humphrey, dated Seabrook, Conn., August 10; from Prof. 
J. J. Sylvester, dated St. John’s College, Cambria, August 
11; from Prof. James Geikie, Perth, Scotland, August 14, 
hes ire 
A photograph for the Album was received from Mr. 
James Geikie. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from Prof. 
Steenstrup, Copenhagen, August 31 (99); Royal Zoological 
Society, Amsterdam, July 14 (96, 98); M. Henri de Saus- 
sure, Geneva, August 15 (96, 98); Bureau des Longitudes, 
Paris, July 18 (96, 98); Royal Society, Edinburgh, August 
8 (96, 98); Natural History Society, Northumberland, &c., 
August 22 (96, 98). > 
Letters of envoy were received from the Royal Society of 
New South Wales, July 11, 1877; 8. de Geographie Com- 
merciale de Bordeaux, June 1; Meteor. Office, London, July, 
1877; Mr. H. 8. Eddy, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 28. 
A letter was received from Mr. Ludwig Mejer, Secretary 
of the Natural History Society of Hanover, informing 
the Society, that Nos. 96 and 98, sent to Prof. Stromeyer, 
had been given on the death of that member of the Society 
to the Society in Hanover, and. requesting that the gift be 
confirmed, and the transmission of Proceedings be continued 
on the basis of exchanges. 
