1894.] ^«^'-^ 



Slated Meeting^ May 4, 189^. 

 Mr. Ingham in the Chair. 



Minutes of preceding meeting read. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Survey of India 

 Department, Calcutta; K. Sachsische Gesellschaft der Wissen- 

 schaften, Leipzig, Saxony ; Faculte des Sciences, Marseilles, 

 France ; Mrs. Carvill Lewis, London, Eng. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Royal 

 Society of New South Wales, Sydney (1^2); Imperial Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, Physical Central Observatory, Russian Chemi- 

 cal Society, Library of the Ministry of Marine, Prof, Serge Niki- 

 tin, St. Petersburg, Russia (1^-); K. Vetenskaps Akademiens 

 Bibleotek, Statistika Central Byran, Stockholm, Sweden 

 (142); Maatschappij van Nederlamlsche Letterkunde, Leiden, 

 Z. Holland (1-12); Bibliotheque R. de Belgique, Bruxelles 

 (140, lil) ; Redaction der NalurwissenschaftUchen Wochen- 

 schrift, Berlin, Prussia (1-il); R. Accademia dei Lincei, 

 Rome, Italy (1-12); Bibliotheque Universitaire, Lyon, France 

 (130-135) ; Mercantile Library, Philadelphia (135) ; Mr. Ever- 

 ard F. im Thurn, Georgetown, British Guiana (141). 



Letters of acknowledgment (144) were received from the En- 

 gineers' Club, Franklin Institute, LFniversity of Pennsylvania, 

 Mercantile Library, Pennsylvania Historical Society, Free Li- 

 brary of Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences, Wagner 

 Free Institute, Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, Gen. I. 

 J. Wistar, Admiral Macauley, Profs. E. D. Cope, H. D. Greg- 

 ory, Lewis M. Ilaupt, II. V. Ililprecht, J. P. Lesley, James 

 MacAHster, Drs. John Ashhurst, Jr., J. Solis Cohen, Persifor 

 Frazer, W. W. Keen, Morris Longstreth, John Marshall, 

 Charles A. Oliver, C. N. Peirce, W. S. W. Ruschenberger, 

 H. Clay Trumbull, W. II. Wahl, Messrs. R. L. Ashhurst, R. 

 Meade Bache, Patterson DuBois, Jacob B. Eckfeldt, Robert P. 

 Field, E. V. d'Invillier, W. W. Jefferis, Franklin Piatt, Theo- 

 dore D, Rand, Louis Vossion, J. M. Wilson, Ellis Yarnall, 

 Philadelphia ; Mr. Heber S. Thompson, Pottsville, Pa. ; Rev. F. 



