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Dr. Rogers moved the following Resolution : 
Resolved, That in view of the originality, merit and success of Mr. 
Wootten’s process for utilizing coal waste, Mr. Wootten be awarded the 
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premium above referred to. 
After discussion on which resolution it was 
Resolved, That the Report be recommitted to the Committee, with in- 
structions that all competing methods be considered by the Committee 
which shall be presented to its consideration within three months after 
public advertisement by the Society in two city papers once a week for 
three weeks ; the function of the Committee being clearly understood to be 
to report on the success, the originality, and the merits* of the process. 
And the Society was adjourned at 11 o’clock, p. m. 
Stated Meeting, July 20th, 1877. 
Present, 16 members. 
Vice-President, Mr. Fraury, in the Chair. 
Prof. H. Draper, a newly-elected member, was introduced 
to the presiding officer and took his seat. 
Visitor, Mr. Wallace, of Ansonia, Conn. 
A photograph of Mr. Sears C. Walker was received from 
the Smithsonian Institution, for the album. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the R. §. 
of Tasmania, Dec. 27, 1876 (92, 98, 94); R. D. A. Copen- 
hagen, June 16, 1877 (96, 98); N. H. Union at Bremen, 
July 1, 1877 (96,* 98) (* asks for 97 not received); A. d. 
L. Rome (97); Triibner & Co, London, June 29, 1877 (96,* 
98); N. Hampshire Hist. Soc. July 2, 1877 (99); and the 
Chicago Hist. Soc. June 14 and 29, 1877 (94, 95, 96, 97, 98). 
Letters from the R. Acad. Berlin, June 15, July 2, were 
received, requesting missing pages Proc., Vol. VII, pp. 121- 
163, and Vol. LX, 1870, plates 6, 7, 8. 
A letter from the Bureau of Education, Washington, D. 
C., was received, requesting replies to inquiries respecting 
meetings and publications. 
* Mr, Briggs wished the attention of the Society to be drawn to a clerical error 
in the printed Proceedings of December 1, 1876, whereby the word “merits” 
was omitted. 
