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Stated Meeting, March 15th, 1878. 
Present, 14 members. 
Vice-President, Mr. FRALEY, in the chair. 
Photographs for the album were received from Mr. C. H. 
F. Peters, Director of the Litchfield Observatory, and Pro- 
fessor of Astronomy at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y. 
Also from Prof. John Wm. Dawson, LL.D., F. R. 8. & F. 
G.S8., Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the MeGill Uni- 
versity, Montreal, Canada, and from Mr. Sam’l F. Haven, 
Worcester, Mass. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the New 
Hampshire Historical Society, dated Concord, March 9th, 
1878 (100), and the Franklin Institute, March 12th, 1878 
(100), and postal cards from many other correspondents. 
A letter of thanks for the use of the Hall on the evening 
of February 26th, was received from Dr. Thomas M. Drown, 
Secretary, dated Haston, May 9th, 1878. . 
A letter from the State Historical Society of Kansas, 
dated Topeka, February 27th, and signed F. G. Adams, Sec- 
retary, giving a list of State publications at the command 
of that Society, and proposing exchanges. On motion the 
name of the Society was ordered to be placed upon the list 
of correspondents to receive the Proceedings. 
A letter (P. C.) was received from Prof. Henry 8. Osborn, 
State University, Oxford, Ohio, offering a donation of fossils 
to the Cabinet. 
Donations for the Library were received from the Mining 
Bureau at Melbourne; the Academies at Berlin, Brussels, 
Rome, Minneapolis, and Chicago ; the Geographical Societies 
at Paris and Bordeaux; Revue Politique; London Nature ; 
Essex Institute; Boston N. H. Society ; Silliman and Dana; 
Long Island Historical Society; Mr. J. C. Bancroft Davis of 
New York; the Geological Survey of New Jersey; the Frank- 
lin Institute, Penn Monthly, Medical News, Medical Jour- 
