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mission for attending to Observations on the Transit of 

 Venus ; Engineer and War Departments, Washington. 



The Committee to which was referred the cost of publish- 

 ing the illustrations to Dr. Allen's Memoir, reported that it 

 would cost $400. On motion an appropriation of $400 was 

 ordered for that purpose. 



Prof. Chase communicated two brief notes entitled — 



1. On Rainfall in cyclonic years of Jupiter, at Greenwich, 

 Philadelphia, Lisbon, San Francisco and Barbadoes. 



2. On the Lunar Cyclical Rainfall at Barbadoes, f )r 27 

 years. 



Pending nominations Xos. 753, 754, 755, 756 were read, 

 and the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, July 11 (h, 1874. 



Present, 8 members. 



Vice-President, Frederick Fraley, in the Chair.. 



A letter from Dr. DaCosta, requesting the completion of 

 his set of the Proceedings was read, and referred to the- 

 Committee on Publication, with power to take order. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Royal 

 Society of Tasmania ; the Imperial Russian Academy, the 

 Central Physical Observatory, the !N"atural History Society. 

 at Riga; the Imperial Academy, Geological Institute,. and 

 Zoologico - Botanical Society, at Vienna ; the Imperial 

 Academy, German Geological Society, and Physical Society, 

 at Berlin ; the Societies at Bremen, Frankfort and Offen- 

 bach, the Hague, Lausanne and Bordeaux ; the Musee Teyler ; 

 the Royal Academy, at Bruxell ; the Academy of Medicine, 

 Ecole des Mines, National Society of Antiquaries, and Revue 

 Politique, at Paris ; Mr. H. S. Munroe, of Yeddo ; the Geo- 

 graphical Society of Mexico ; the Royal Astronomical So- 

 ciety, Meteorological Committee, and Nature, in London ; 

 the Victoria Institute ; the Philosophical and Literary So- 



