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Stated Meeting^ April 16, 1875. 



Present 16 members. 



Dr. Carson in the chair. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the IlTatu- 

 ral History Society at Wiesbaden, the British Association, 

 and the American Ethnological Society in N'ew York. 



A' letter of envoy was received from the Central Physical 

 Observatory at St. Petersburg. 



A letter was received from the Academy of Sciences of 

 Chicago requesting the replacement of Proceedings of the 

 American Philosophical Society lost by the lire. On motion, 

 the request was granted. 



A letter was received from the Department of the Interior, 

 U. S. Bureau of Education, dated March 31, calling for in- 

 formation respecting the Library. On motion, referred to 

 the Librarian. 



Donations for the Library were announced from the Acad- 

 emies at Berlin and Bruxellcs ; the Societies at Gorlitz, Wies- 

 baden, and Bonn ; the Editors of the Annales des Mines, 

 Revue Politique, and N"ouvelles Meteorologiques ; the Royal 

 Institution ; Editors of JSTature ; and Mr. Robert Twining ; 

 the Societe Literaire et Philosophique, Quebec ; the Massa- 

 chusetts State Board of Health ; Silliman's Journal ; State 

 Geologist of New Jersey ; American Journal of the Medical 

 Sciences; Department of the Interior, U. S.; and editors of 

 the Western. 



The death of Dr. Andrew A. Henderson, at the U. S. 

 I^aval Laboratory, Brooklyn, X. Y., on the 5th inst, aged 

 59, was announced by Mr. Lesley. On motion, Mr. Lesley 

 was lequested to prepare an obituary notice of the deceased. 



The death of Mr. John Henry Towne, of Philadelphia, 

 at Paris on the 6th inst., w^as announced by Mr. Lesley. 

 On motion Mr. Sol. W. Roberts was requested to prepare an 

 obituary notice of the deceased. 



Dr. LeConte read another communication from Dr. W. 



