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Stated Meeting^ Oct. 15, 1869. 



Present, eleven members. 

 Prof. Cresson in tlie Cliair. 



A letter from Prof. Newton of Yale College, to the Secre- 

 tary, in behalf of M. St. Claire Deville, Director of the New 

 Observatory at Paris, requesting exchanges, and announcing 

 the transmission of the Bulletin of the Observatory, was 

 read, and, on motion, the Observatory was ordered to be 

 placed on the list of correspondents to receive the Proceedings. 



Letters acknowledging the receipt of Transactions, Yol. 

 XIII., Part 3, and Proceedings No. 81 were received from 

 the Peabody Institute at Baltimore, and the New York Ly- 

 ceum of Natural History. 



Donations for the Library were received from Prof. Zante- 

 deschi, the Essex Institute, the Boston S. N. H., the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mr. E. M. Stone, of Provi- 

 dence, the New York Lyceum, the Philadelj)hia Academy of 

 Natural Sciences and Medical Journal, and the State Depart- 

 ment and Coast Survey Bureau at AYashington. 



The Committee to which was referred the Memoir of Dr. 

 Brinton, entitled the "Arowack Language of Guiana," &c., 

 reported in favor of its publication in the Transactions ; and 

 on motion of Mr. Fraley it Vv^as so ordered. 



Prof. Cresson laid before the Society a profile of the eleva- 

 tions attained by the recent flood in the Schuylkill river, for 

 a distance of 34,200 feet above the dam at Fairmount, and 

 from the dam to Chestnut street Bridge, with a table of 



