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Meteorological Institute of Vienna, October 1 (96, 88); As- 
tronomical Society of Leipsig, September 17 (99); Royal 
Academy at Munich, July 1 (97); the Wurtemburg Union 
at Stuttgardt, August 1 (95, 96, 97 and 98, returning also 
duplicates) ; the Victoria Institute, September 15 (99); Sta- 
tistical Society, September 27 (99); and M. M. Barcena, 
Mexico, September 29 (97, 98, 99). 
Letters of envoy were received from the R. Swedish Acad- 
emy, June, 1877; R. Bavarian Academy, July 1,1877; and 
Cambridge Philosophical Society. 
Donations for the Library were received from the Imp. 
Academy of Russia; R. Swedish Academy; R. Danish So- 
ciety ; R. Observatory at Prag ; Geological Institute and An- 
thropological Society at Vienna; the German Geological 
Society at Berlin; the Societies at Bremen, Giessen, Gorlitz, 
and Stuttgardt; the R. Observatory and R. Academy at 
Munich; the Vaudoise Society and M. Henri de Saussure, 
and M. F. W. C. Trafford; the Geograph. and Anthropolog- 
ical Societies, Academy of Medicine, Museum of Natural 
History, Annales des Mines, Révue Politique and M. 
Hugo, of Paris; Physical Society at Bordeaux; Natural 
History Society at Bordeaux; Academy at Brussels; Vic- 
toria Institute; R Geographical, Zoological and Antiqua- 
rian Societies, and London Nature; Cambridge Philosophi- 
eal Society ; Canadian Journal, Toronto; Essex Institute ; 
Prof. O. C. Marsh; Penn Monthly; Medical News; Ameri- 
ean Journal Med. Sciences; Mr. Geo. E. Emory of Lynn, 
Mass.; Botanical Gazette, Ind.; and the Meteorological 
Observatory at Mexico. 
An obituary notice of the late Vice-President, John 
Chapman Cresson, was read by Mr. Fraley, followed by 
remarks and reminiscences by Mr. Roberts. 
A communication entitled: “On Land Plants in the 
Silurian of N. A., and on a Fungus discovered in the Coal 
Measures of W. Pennsylvania. By Leo Lesquereux,” was 
read by the Secretary. 
