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ballotted for, and on a scrutiny of the ballot boxes, the fol- 
lowing persons were declared duly elected members of the 
Society : 
Mr. H. C. Humphreys, Chemist, of Philadelphia. 
Prof. 1. I. Sylvester, of Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore. 
Mr. John Ericsson, of New York. 
And the meeting was adjourned. 
Stated Meeting, August 17th, 1877. 
Present, 8 members. 
Secretary, Dr. LeContx, in the Chair. 
Letters acknowledging the receipt of Proceedings, 94 to 
99, were received from the R. Observatory at Greenwich ; 
the Radcliffe Observatory; Philosophical Scciety of Liver- 
pool; the East Tennessee University; Poughkeepsie N. H. 
Society; Wisconsin Hist. Society; Library of Congress ; 
Public Library of New Bedford; Library of Yale College ; 
Northern Academy of Hanover, Ind.; U.S. Coast Survey 
Office; American Journal at New Haven; Linnean Society 
at Lancaster; Buffalo N. H. Society; Prof. L. Riitimeyer, 
John L. Campbell, C. F. Brackett, C. E. Dutton, W. A. 
Hammond, E. Goodfellow, T. L. Kane, Thomas Hill, P. F. 
Rothermel, R. S. Williamson, Jos. LeConte, John LeConte, 
Cleveland Abbe, J. F. Clarke, Joseph Henry, M. F. Long- 
streth, Jas. D. Dana, and C. A. Young, now of Princeton. 
Donations for the Library were received from the R. 
Academies at Berlin and Brussels ; the Antiquarian Society 
at Copenhagen; M. Chabas; M. L. Hugo; the Geographical 
Society and Révue Politique, Paris; the Observatories at 
Madrid, Mexico, Buenos Ayres and Cordoba; the R. Astro- 
nomical and Zoological Societies and London Nature; the 
Philosophical Society at Glasgow ; the Canadian Naturalist ; 
Government of Canada; Peabody Museum at Cambridge ; 
Appalachian Club; American Antiquarian Society ; Whelp- 
ley and Storer; Silliman’s Journal; Mercantile Library of 
