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Stated Meeting, May 21, 1880. 



Present, 7 members. 



President, Mr. Fralby, in the Chair, 



A letter accepting membership was received from Dr. 

 "Wm. Thomson, dated 1502 Locust street, Philadelphia, May 

 1, 1880. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the 

 Royal Observatory of Prag, dated April 24, 1880 (102, 103); 

 ISTatural History Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 28 

 (103, 104); Brown University, in Providence, R. I., May 1 

 (105); Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, May 11 

 (105) ; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, May 8 (105) ; 

 U. S. IN'aval Observatory, Washington, May 10 (105) ; Hamil- 

 ton College, Clinton, N. Y., May 8 (105) ; and the Davenport 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, May 4 (105). 



Letters of envoy were received from Hofrath Adam 

 Freiherrn Von Burg, dated Vienna, January, 1880 ; the 

 Society of Physics, Geneva, January 13 ; the Natural His- 

 tory Society, Marburg, January, 1880 ; and the K. 

 Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie, Halle, a.-S. Jan- 

 uary 2. 



A letter was received from Charles Kraus, dated April 26, 

 1880, Pardubitz-Bohemia, asking for the Proceeding of the 

 year 1879. 



A letter was received from the U. S. Naval Observatory, 

 asking for Proceedings Nos. 5, 67, 68, 93. On motion it was 

 referred to the Secretaries for action. 



Donation's were received from the Royal Society of New 

 South Wales ; the Observatories at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 St. Petersburg, and Greenwich ; Academies at St. Peters- 

 burg, Dresden, Dijon, and Brussels ; Vereines zur Beforde- 

 rung des Gartenbaues, Berlin ; Anthropological Society, 

 K. K. Geological Committee, and Hofrath Adam Frei- 

 herrn von Burg, Vienna ; Editors of the Zoologischer An- 

 zeiger, Leipsig ; Royal Society, Gottingen ; Zoological Gar- 



