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lest the stock of Proceedings be so diminished as to make it 

 impossible to supply corresponding Societies. 



The request of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary 

 Society for JSTos, 75 and 79, to complete their set, was on 

 motion, granted. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the 

 Society at Riga, Feb. 28, 1874, (90, 91); Boston Public 

 Library, Oct. 12, 1874, (XIV, 92) ; and War Department, 

 Washington, Oct. 5, 1874, (92). 



Letters of envoy were received from the Swedish Geolo- 

 logical Bureau, Stockholm, Nov. 15, 1873 ; and the Prussian 

 Academy, Dec, 1873. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Acade- 

 mies at Berlin and Brussels, and Salem, Mass. ; the Society 

 at Zwickau ; the Paris Geographical Society, and Revue 

 Politique ; London ITature ; Boston jSTatural History Society; 

 Journal of Medical Sciences, Journal of Pharmacy, Medical 

 iTews and Library, Mr. H. C. Carey, and the Hon. B. H. 

 Brewster, of Philadelphia, 



Mr. Lesley described the marked change in the aspect of 

 the northern and northwestern counties in the State during 

 the last thirty years, and the progress of the Geological Sur- 

 vey of that region ; the facilities afforded for it, and the 

 private collections of fossils in it, at Mansfield, Warren and 

 Titusville ; the discovery of the Devonian (No. IX) fish- 

 beds at various places from the Hudson to the Alleghany 

 rivers ; the differentiation of the Conglomerate from the oil 

 region sand rocks, and of the Marshall group from the Che- 

 mung, &c. 



Pending nominations, 755, 757 to 763, and new nomina- 

 tion No. 764, were read. 



Nominations 755 to 763 were balloted for, and after 

 scrutiny of the ballot boxes by the presidi ng officers, the 

 following were declared duly elected members of the Society: 



Rev. James Freeman Clarke, of Boston. 



Franz Ritter von Hauer, of Vienna. 



Rawson W. Rawson, Governor of Barbadoes. 



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