432 



Pending nominations, Is'os. 766 to 776, and new nomina- 

 tions, 'Nos. 777,778 were read. 



On motion of Prof. Frazer, it was 



Hesolved, That the Hall Committee be requested to con- 

 sider the propriety of placing in the ISociety's rooms one 

 of the instruments of the American District Telegraph 

 Company, and the Treasurer be authorized to pay $18.00 

 as the annual rental of the same. 



And the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, March 19, 1875. 



Present, 13 members. 



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



I'hotographs of Prof. Sadtler and Prof. Thomson, of the 

 University of Peinisylvania, were presented for insertion 

 in the album. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Liter- 

 ary and Philosophical So'3iety of Liverpool, dated Jan. 25 

 (XIV^, XV., i., 90, 91, 92) ; and Smithsonian Institution 

 (90,92). 



A letter was received from the New Jersey Historical 

 Societ}^, Xewark, March 12, requesting that deficiencies in 

 their set of Proceedings and Transactions A. P. S. be sup- 

 plied (Proc. I., II., Ill , 77. Transactions, all but the First 

 Series III., i. Cat. I). 



A letter was read from Mr. Wm. Holden, Librarian of the 

 Ohio State Library, desiring to exchange copies of the Geo- 

 logical State Survey for Dr. Wood's and Mr. Cope's memoirs 

 on the Arachnidse and Myriopoda, in the Transactions and 

 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Austrian Academy, 

 Sep. 30, 1874 ; the St. Petersburg Physical Central Observa- 

 tory, Jan., 1875 ; the Greenwich Observatory, Feb. 19, 1875 ; 

 the Literary and Philosophic Society, of Liverpool, Jan. 28, 



