It) [April 16, 



Stated Meeting, Ajml 16, 1880. 



Present, 17 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the chair. 



A letter of acknowledgment was received from the K. K. 

 Central Anstalt fiir Meteorologie und Erdmagnetismus, at 

 Vienna, dated March 17, 1880 (100, 103). 



A letter of envoy was received from the Surveyor-Gen- 

 eral of India, dated Calcutta, March I, 1880. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Swedish 

 Bureau of Statistics, Stockholm ; Herr C. A. Dohrn, Stettin ; 

 the editor of the " Zoologischer Anzeiger," Leipsig ; the 

 Royal Academy, Brussels ; Societe de Geographic, and Re- 

 vue Politique et Litteraire, at Paris ; Accademia dei Lincei, 

 Rome; Editors of the " Revista Euskara," Pamplono; Society 

 of Antiquaries, Editors of ]!Tature, and Mr. Joseph Prest- 

 wich, London ; J^atural History Society, Montreal ; Con- 

 necticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American 

 Journal of Science, ISTew Haven ; Trustees of the Astor 

 Library ; Editor of the North American Entomologist, 

 Buffalo ; New Jersey Historical Society ; New Jersey State 

 Geologist ; Franklin Institute, Medical News, American 

 Journal of the Medical Sciences, and American Journal of 

 Pharmacy, Philadelphia ; the Managers of Haverford Col- 

 lege, Penna. ; Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., of Philadelphia; 

 Cincinnati Society of Natural History ; St. Louis Academy 

 of Sciences ; and M. Hugo von Meltzl. 



No. 105 of the Proceedings of the Society, just published, 

 was exhibited. 



Mr. Lesley communicated the following extracts from a 

 letter received from Mr. Lesquereux respecting an interest- 

 ing discovery of North Carolina Triassic (?) plants in Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania : 



•'Yesterday (April 13) I found in a box, wliicli I received about two 

 weeks ago, a letter from Mr. John S. Ash, of Buckingham, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, with six specimens bearing vegetable remains of a Cycad : 

 Pterophyllum robustum Emmons (a large specimen) ; Calamites o.renaceiis 

 Brgt. (four specimens), outside and inside, cylinder in two small speci- 

 mens ; a fragment cf bark (undeterminable) like a Cyclostigma. 



