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Stated Meeting^ January 15, 1875. 



Present, 15 members. 



Mr. Fraley, Vice-President, in the chair. 



A letter resigning membership on account of his inability 

 to attend the meetings was received from Mr. Lloyd P. 

 Smith, of Germantown, Philadelphia. 



A letter requesting Proc. 'Eo, 88 was received from the 

 London Horticultural Society, per Prof. Asa Gray, Dec. 31, 

 1876. 



A letter requesting Proceedings January-June, 1872, pp. 

 225-232, was received from the Boston Athenseum, dated 

 Jan. 8, 1875. 



A letter acknowledging Proceedings 81 to 92 and asking 

 for the preceding numbers of the set, was received from Mr. 

 R. S. Williamson, dated San Francisco, Jan. 2, 1875. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Agri-- 

 cultural Society at Lyons, Oct. 30, 1875, (Proc. 1 to 91, want- 

 ing 5, 17, 21, 23, 2r;, 29 to 31, 34, 63 and 64) ; and from the 

 liOudon Statistical Society, London, Dec. 14, 1874 (92). 



A letter of Envoy was received from the Royal Society of 

 Victoria, dated Melbourne, March 10, 1874. 



Circular letters were read from the K. K. Geological In- 

 stitute, Vienna, respecting its Twenty-fifth Anniversary Fes- 

 tival, Jan. 5, 1875 ; from the Royal Belgian Academy respect- 

 ing a monument to M. Quetelet ; from the Canadian Parlia- 

 mentary Companion ; from the Linnean Society at Lyons ; 

 and from the Congres Liternationale des Americanistes. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Royal 

 Society at Victoria ; The German Geological Society ; the 

 Physico-Medical Society at Erlangen ; the Zoologische Gar- 

 ten ; the Flora Batava ; Agricultural Society at Lyons ; Nou- 

 velles Meteorologiques, and Revue Politique at Paris ; Royal 

 Astronomical Society, Chemical Society, Victoria Institute, 

 and Editors of Nature ; the Cornwall Polytechnic Society ; 

 American Journal of Science,' ISTew Haven ; ISTew York Ly- 



