68 MINUTES. [Jan 19, 
Stated Meeting, January 19, 1900. 
Vice-President WISTAR in the Chair. 
Present, 32 members. 
Messrs. William Brooke Rawle, Robert C. H. Brock and 
Barton C. Hirst, newly elected members, were presented to 
the Chair, and took their seats in the Society. 
Letters accepting election to membership were received 
from Profs. James Dewar, Barton C. Hirst, William dH. 
Holmes, Jacques Loeb, A. B. Meyer, Sir William Henry 
Preece and Prof. Charles Otis Whitman. 
Donations to the Library were announced. 
The Curators announced the donation of a portrait of our 
late fellow-member, Dr. D. G. Brinton, from his friends, 
and of a medal from the Numismatic and Antiquarian Soci- 
ety, for which the thanks of the Society were ordered. 
Dr. I. Minis Hays then read a paper entitled ‘‘ A Contri- 
bution to the Bibliography of the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence:”’ 
R. H. Mathews, of Paramatta, N. 5. Wales, presented a 
paper on ‘‘ Divisions of the South Australian Aborigines.”” * 
Mr. Robert Paterson Field made some remarks on Col. 
William Anderson and presented a photograph of a portrait 
of Gen. Washington by Charles Wilson Peale, and exhibited 
the portrait. 
Dr. I. Minis Hays was unanimously reélected Librarian for 
the ensuing year. 
The meeting was adjourned by the presiding officer to 
Friday, February 2, at five minutes before 8 P.M. 
