^-^■* [Nov. 21, 



A letter acknowledging receipt of diploma of membership, 

 was received from Mrs. Marj Somerville, dated Naples, Oct. 

 26th, 1870. 



Letters acknowledging the receipt of the Society's publica- 

 tions, were received from Sir J. F. W. Herschell (series) ; Mr. 

 E. W. Fox (82); Leeds Phil. Soc. (83); Ehode Island Hist. 

 Soc. ; Georgia Hist. Soc. ; Peabody Inst. ; and Essex Institute 

 (all 84) ; the Belgian Academy (XIII. 3 ; and 78, 79, 80, 81) ; 

 Amherst College (asking for deficiencies to be supplied) ; New 

 York Lyceum ; N. H. Mass.' Hist. Soc. ; Howard College ; 

 New York State Library ; and Penna. Hist. Soc. (all XIV, 2, 

 and 84). 



Letters of envoy were received from the Belgian Acad., 

 May 30 ; Holland Soc, July 1st (asking that deficiencies in. 

 their series be supplied) ; Eoyal Geographical Soc, June 1 ; 

 and the Ulm Art and Antiquity Union, March 6th, 1869, 

 requesting an exchange of publications. On motion, the Ulm 

 Art and Antiquity Union was ordered to be placed on the 

 list of correspondence to receive the Proceedings. 



Donations were received from M. Zantedeschi, of Padua ; 

 M. Finzi, of Florence ; the Ulm Union ; Judge Lowrie ; the 

 London E. Astron. Soc. ; Mr. John Tyndall ; Mr. John Lewis 

 Peyton, of London ; Prof. E. Loomis, of Yale College ; New 

 York Lyceum N. Hist ; Prof. T. Eggleston, Jr. ; the Albany 

 Institute; Franklin Institute; and the Minnesota Historical 

 Society ; which, on motion, was ordered to be placed on the 

 list of Correspondents to receive the Proceedings regularly. 



The Committee to which w^as referred Prof. Cope's Memoir 

 on the Ichthyology of the Maranon, reported in favor of its 

 being published in the Proceedings, with wood-cut illustra- 

 tions, which, on motion, was so ordered. 



Dr. Wm. Pepper read the following Obituary notice of Sir 

 James Copland : — 



