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Stated Meeting^ November 5ih, 1875. 



Present, 12 members. 



Vice President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Letters accepting membership were received from Mr. 

 Russell Thayer, dated Fairmount Park, Phila., Oct. 19th ; 

 from Dr. Stephen Smith, dated Amer. Pub. Health Associa- 

 tion, New York, Oct. 20th ; Gideon E. Moore, Ph.D., dated 

 Passaic Zinc Works, Jersey City, Oct. 21 ; Wm. Blasius, 

 dated Phila., Oct. 25th ; John F. Carll, dated Pleasantville, 

 Oct. 27th, and Mr. Furman Sheppard, Philad'a, Oct. 28th, 

 1875. 



A letter was received from M. Penard, of Moscow, ac- 

 knowledging the letter of congratulation voted July 16th 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the P. 

 Geog. Society, London, Oct. 23d, (Tr. XY, ii ; 94 ; wants all 

 Yol. XTII and XY, ii.) ; Astronomical Society, London, 

 (XY, ii, 94) ; P. Observatory, Greenwich, Oct. 22 (94) ; B. 

 S. K H., Oct. 25th (XY, i, 91, 92, 93). 



A letter asking for Proceedings 'No. 88, was received from 

 the Philosophical Society pf Glasgow. 



A letter concerning that part of the will of the late Mrs. 

 Caroline E. G. Peale, concerning her husband's cabinet of an- 

 tiquities, was received from her executor, Mr. Robert Patter- 

 son, and at a subsequent stage of the proceedings, was, on 

 motion, referred for consideration and report to the Curators. 



Donations for the Library were received from the R. 

 Prussian and Belgian Academies ; the Societies at Lausanne 

 and Leyden ; the Geog. Society, Nouvelles Met. and Revue 

 Politique, at Paris ; London ligature ; B. S. N. IL ; Mr. Scud- 

 der, and Mr. Hyatt, of Boston ; Penn Monthly ; American 

 Journal of Pharmacy ; Smithsonian Institute, and the W est- 

 ern. 



The death of Dr. Kingston Goddard, at his residence on 

 Staten Island, Oct. 14, aged 62, was announced by Mr. 

 Fraley. 



