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Stated Meeting, March 1, 1878. 
Present, 11 members. 
Secretary, Dr. LeContE, in the Chair. 
Letters accepting membership were received from Mr. 
C. H. F. Peters, dated Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., Jan. 
28; Mr. F. A. March, dated Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., 
Feb. 4; Mr. Simon Newcomb, Washington, D. C., Feb. 5 ; 
and Mr. Elisha Gray, office of the Western Electric Manu- 
facturing Co., Chicago, Ill., Feb. 6, 1878. 
A cireular letter was received from the Bataviaash 
Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, dated Batavia, 
Dec. 16, 1877, announcing the celebration of the Centennial 
Anniversary of the foundation of the Society on the 24th of 
April, 1878, and extending an invitation to this Society to 
participate in the occasion. 
A letter of acknowledgment was received from the Royal 
Academy of Lisbon, dated Dec. 26, 1877 (97). 
A letter of envoy was received from the Department of 
the Interior, dated Washington, D. C., Feb. 16, 1878. 
Donations for the Library were received trom the Ed. 
Revue Politique, the Meteorological Office, London; Lord 
Lindsay, Aberdeen; Ed. Canadian Journal, Toronto; Ed. 
Boston Nat. Hist. Society; Managers of the Germantown 
Dispensary ; House of Refuge; Social Science Association ; 
Ed. Journal of Prison Discipline, Philadelphia; Department 
of State and Interior, and U. 8. Naval Observatory ; Acade- 
my of Sciences, St. Louis; and Min. de Fomento and C. 
Meteorological Observatory, Mexico. 
A medal of Mr. Peabody was received for the Cabinet 
from the officers of the U. S. Mint, ordered by the Peabody 
Education Fund, and given to the Society by Mr. Robert C. 
Winthrop, No. 90 Marlborough street, Boston, bearing the 
effigy of George Peabody, with the inscription, “ George 
Peabody, born the 18th of February, 1795, died 4th Novem- 
ber, 1869,” and on the reverse, “* Education, a debt due from 
PROC. AMER. PHILOS. soc, XvII. 101. 2M. PRINTED MARCH 27, 1878. 
