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to make inquiry whether the trust under the will of Andre Francis Mi- 

 chaux may not be executed in whole or in part within the Fairmount 

 Park ; with authority to communicate witli the Commissioners of the 

 Park upon the subject ; and to make report to the Society. 



The resolution was agreed to. 



A letter from Mr. Sullivant to Mr. James was read, refer- 

 ring to the discovery of a posthumous work by Schwarz the 

 bryologist. On motion, permission was granted to Mr. James 

 to select from the Muhlenberg herbarium certain mosses for 

 Mr. Sullivant to examine, in reference to Schwarz's determi- 

 nations, to be returned to their places in the herbarium. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Berlin 

 Academy, Teyler Museum, Paris Geographical and London 

 R. Astronomical Societies, Mr. Scudder at Boston, Silliman's 

 Journal, the Franklin Institute and the Medical News. 



" The Arawak Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and 

 Ethnological Relations," by D. G. Brinton, M. D., was offered 

 for publication in the Transactions, and referred to a commit- 

 tee consisting of Mr. Lesley, Mr. Chase, and Mr. Haldeman. 



"A second addition to the History of the Fishes of the Cre- 

 taceous of the United States, by Edward D. Cope," without 

 illustrations, was read by title and referred to the Board of 

 Secretaries. 



"The maintaining Forces of Cosmical Motions," was the 

 title of a paper read before the Society, by Judge Lowrie ; a 

 discussioa ensued in which Mr. Price, Mr. Lesley and Mr. 

 Fraley took part. Mr. Lesley dissented from the opinions 

 expressed in the paper, so far as any claim was set up to a 

 discovery calculated to effect a radical change in the accepted 

 methods of regarding planetary motion. 



Mr, Marsh described the peculiarities of the Meteor of 

 August 2-4:th, and others, belonging as he suspected to a group 

 passing the earth during the clay time in the United States, 

 and therefore only the last of which became visible at or 

 after sundown. 



Pending nominations Nos. 227 to 640, and new nominations 

 641, 642, were read. And the Society was adjourned. 



