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Stated Meeting^ March 18, 1870. 



Present, eleven members. 



Me. Fhaley, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A letter accepting membership was received from Mrs. 

 Marj Somerville, dated Naples, Feb, 14, 1870. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Eoyal Academies 

 at Munich, (Dec. 1,) and Vienna, (Aug. 20,) from the R. So- 

 ciety of Zoology at Amsterdam, (Dec. 9,) and the Society at 

 Giessen, Sept. 2, 1869. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Soci- 

 eties at Griessen, (77-80), Gottingen, (78-80), Bremen, (73-80), 

 Prof. Bunsen, (78, 79), Historical Acad, at Madrid, (XIII. 1, 

 List, Cat. I, 71, 72, 77), E. Academy at Amsterdam (78-80), 

 E. Library, Hague, (78-80), Observatory at Prague (78-80). 



A circular letter respecting the celebration of its 25th an- 

 niversary festival, on the 27th of March (April 8th), was re- 

 ceived from the Society at Eiga. 



A letter was read from Captain C. F. Hall, dated Wash- 

 ington, D. C, March 12, 1870, enclosing a petition to Con- 

 gress, in favor of his proposed Third Arctic Exploring Expe- 

 dition. Tlie petition was laid upon the table for the signature 

 of the members and others. 



Donations for the library were received from the Societies 

 at Moscow, Emden, Frankfurt, Lille, Bordeaux, Montreal and 

 Madison ; from the Berlin Academy ; Paris Geographical 

 Society; Eoyal Institution of G. Britain, London; Chemical 

 and Antiquarian Societies; Greenwich Observatory; Dublin 

 Geological Society; Dr. Haughton; the American Antiquarian 

 Society; New York Lyceum; Dr. Geo. B. Wood; and the 

 Peabody Institute. 



A Circular from the Smithsonian institute announced an- 

 other transmission of correspondence for the 20th April; all 

 envoys to be in Washington by the 15th. 



Prof. Cope communicated the results of his examinations of 

 the locality, two miles S. W. from Woodbury, where from 

 30 to 60 skeletons, some of them women and others children, 



