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a proper time the results of exact calculations of the influ- 

 ence of evaporation on the circulation of the atmosphere 

 and the production of storms. 



The minutes of the last stated and special meetings of the 

 Board of Officers and Council were read. 



Pending nominations JSTos. 781 and 783 and new nomina 

 tions 784 to 790 were read. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting^ October Ist^ 1875. 



Present, 13 members. 



Secretary, Dr. Le Conte, in the Chair. 



Letters of acknowledo-ment were received from the R. 

 Observatory at Brussells, August 9th (93) ; and the Rantoul 

 Literary Society (94). 



Letters of envoy were received from the Geological Bu- 

 reau of Sweden, October 27th, 1874 ; the Observatory at 

 Batavia, June, 1872; the Meteorological' office, London, 

 August and September, 1875 ; and the U. S. Department of 

 the Interior, 



A letter was received from the B. and C. Masoni^ Acade- 

 my, Milton, Florida, soliciting books. 



A letter declining his appointment to prepare an obituary 

 notice of Mr. "Whitman, but offering assistance to any one 

 preparing such a memoir, was received from Mr. E. E. Law, 

 Philadelphia, September, 24th, 1875. 



Donations to the Library were received from the R. and I. 

 Academies at St. Petersburgh, Copenhagen, and Berlin ; the 

 Geological Societies at Vienna, Berlin, and Dresden ; the 

 Geological Bureau at Stockholm; the Observatories at St. 

 Petersburgh, and Batavia ; the Societies at Ulm, Bor- 

 deaux, and Batavia ; the Antiquarian Societies at Copen- 

 hagen and Worcester ; Herr Riitimeyer of Basel ; the An- 

 thropological Society ; Ecole des Mines, Revue Politique, and 



