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A letter was read from M. A. Carlier to Mr. Durand, 

 respecting proceedings taken in the case of tlie Micliaux 

 Legacy. 



Donations for tlie Library were received from tlie Natural 

 History Society at Moscow, the Geographical Society and 

 Physical Observatory at St. Petersburg, the Eoyal University 

 of Norway, the Eoyal Saxon Society, the Prince Jablo- 

 nowsky Society at Leipsic, the Societies at Gcirlitz, Emden, 

 Lausanne, and Geneva, the Academy of Sciences at Yienna, 

 the Geographical Society and Bureau des Ponts et Chaussees 

 at Paris, the Royal Astronomical, Meteorological and Chemi- 

 cal Societies of London, Sir John F. W. Herschel, the Bos- 

 ton Natural History Society, the New York Lyceum, the 

 Franklin Institute, the Medical News, the Episcopal Church 

 Hospital, Gen. W. F. Palmer, the Rev. Albert Barnes of 

 Philadelphia, the Peabody Institute of Baltimore, the Public 

 Library of Cincinnati, the University of Michigan, and the 

 California Academy of Sciences at San Francisco. 



A record was made of the decease of J. K. Paulding and 

 Alexander Stevens, M. D., of New York. 



The committee to which was referred the paper on thirteen 

 new species of Crinoidea, in the PaliBOzoic rocks of North 

 America, in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, by Col. S. S. L3^on 

 of Louisville, presented their report, recommending its publi- 

 cation in the Transactions of the Society, which, on motion, 

 was so ordered. 



The committee to which was referred the paper on the Mar- 

 shall Group, by Prof. A. Winchell, reported, recommending 

 its publication in the Proceedings ; on motion, it was referred 

 to the Secretaries with power to act. 



Pendinar nominations Nos. 622 to 626 were read. 



And the Society was adjourned. 



