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Stated Meeting, Feb. 1, 1878. 
Present, 11 members. 
Vice-President, Mr. E. K. Pric, in the Chair. 
Letters accepting membership were received from Mr. 
Asaph Hall, dated U. S. N. Obs., Washington, Jan. 22; Mr. 
John Price Wetherill, 480 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Jan. 
23; Prof. I. C. White, Morgantown, W. Va., University, 
Jan. 24; and Mr. J. F. Mansfield, Cannelton, Beaver Co., 
Pa., Jan. 25, 1878. 
A letter of envoy was received from Dr. Lloyd, of Dublin, 
Treland. 
Donations to the Library were received from the Imp. 
Academy of Prussia; the Belgian Entomological Society ; 
the Revue Politique; London Nature ; Harvard College Ob- 
servatory ; Silliman’s Journal; the Coast Survey; Min. de 
Fomento, Mexico; and Dr. B. F. Gould, of Cordova. 
Applications and inquiries respecting the Coal Slack 
Premium were received and referred. 
A letter was received from Mr. Alex. Wilcocks, dated 
Donaldsonville, Louisiana, Jan. 24, 1878, giving an account 
of the shadows without penumbra cast by the planet Venus. 
A letter relating to a bust of John Vaughn was received 
from Jos. Fry Mogridge, dated Philadelphia, Jan. 26, 1878. 
On motion the use of the Hall was granted to the Ameri- 
can Institute of Mining Engineers, at 8 p. M., Feb. 26. 
Prof. Cope offered for publication in the Transactions a de- 
scription of fossil remains found in caves in the Island of 
Anguilla, and read the concluding pages. He proposed for 
it several lithographic plates, and said that this concluded 
and completed his previously published memoir on the sub- 
ject. On motion, the paper was referred to Dr. Horn, Mr. B. 
V. Marsh, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, as a 
committee to report. 
Dr. LeConte presented for publication in the Proceedings, 
as the first of a series, a paper entitled “ On the Coleoptera 
of Florida, by Mr. E. A. Schwarz, of Detroit,” which went 
