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Letters of acknowledgment and of envoi were received from 

 the Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Feb. 15th, and T. 

 A. Wylie, Librarian of the Indiana State University, Bloom- 

 iiigton, Feb. 16, 1870. 



A letter requesting exchanges was received from Dr. Jeli- 

 nez, Director of the Imperial Central Meteorological Institute, 

 Secretary of the Austrian Meteorological Society, [K. K. Cen- 

 tralanstalt fiir Meteorologie nnd Erdmagnetismus,] which 

 was on motion referred to the Secretaries, with power to place 

 that Institute on the list of correspondents to receive the Pro- 

 ceedings. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Austrian 

 Novara Expedition; the R. Prussian Academy; the Montreal, 

 and Boston Natural History Societies; the American Oriental 

 Society; Prof. J. D. Dana; the Philada. Academy Natural 

 Sciences; the Maryland and Georgia Historical Societies, and 

 the Adjutant General of Maryland. 



The Committee to which was referred the acceptance of 

 the Choctaw Grammar, prepared by the late Cyrus Byington, 

 reported in favor of its publication by the Society, on the 

 terms proposed by the heirs of the deceased missionary. 



The President, Dr. Wood, made a .communication on the 

 subject of the Indian skeleton found upon his cranberry lands 

 in Southern New Jersey. 



He particularly called attention to the characters of the 

 cranium, the separate bones of which had been skillfully put 

 together by Prof. Leidy. The most striking peculiarity was 

 the extraordinary breadth of the cranium, which exceeded 

 that of most European heads; and altogether the size of the 

 cranium was much greater than that of the head of the pres- 

 ent race of Indians. The cranium was compressed behind; 

 and the frontal bones had apparently been artificially some- 

 what flattened. Altogether, the head was very different from 

 that of the ordinary Indians, and probably belonged to a race 

 which had preceded that found here originally by Europeans. 

 From the apppearance of the skeleton, it was probably more 

 than 500 years old, perhaps 1,000. It was more changed than 

 that of the Mastodon recently discovered in the same neio-h- 

 borhood, which, as Dr. Wood had been informed, was about 

 four feet below the surface. 



