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Stated Meeting, Nov. 19iA, 1869. 



Present, fourteen members. 



Mr. Cresson, Vice-President, in tlie Chair. 



A letter, dated Paris, Oct. 25th, 1869, was read from M. 

 Carlier, informing the Society officiallj of the termination of 

 his duties as agent for the Society in the matter of the Michaux 

 Legacy. 



Circular letters were read, dated Kov. 1, 1869, from Mr. 

 Axel Erdmann, chief of the Geological Survey of Sweden, 

 announcing the transmission of charts and pamphlet descrip- 

 tions of the Survey, and requesting exchanges. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Swedish 

 Survey, the Geographical Society of Paris, the London Astro- 

 nomical Societ}^, the Boston Society of Natural History, Yale 

 College, Dr. Newberry, the New Jersey Historical Society, the 

 General Superintendent of Freedmen Schools at Washington, 

 and Dr. J. W. Hoyt of Wisconsin. 



A commnnication was read entitled " On Comets and Mete- 

 ors, by Daniel Kirkwood, LL. D., Professor in Indiana Uni- 

 versity." (See page 215.) 



A communication was read by Judge Lowrie, entitled a 

 search for a " Normal Cause of the Eecession of Cosmical 

 Nodes." (See page 220.) 



Dr. G. B. Wood exhibited a number of Indian relics, disinter- 

 red from a bed of sand in the neighborhood of his residence in 

 Southern New Jersey, consisting of portions of the skull and 

 leg bones of a man. who had been buried in a sitting posture, 



