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Stated Meeting^ June 18, 1880. 



Present, 9 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Mr. Wm. B. Rogers, Jr., a newly-elected member was in- 

 troduced and took his seat. 



Letters accepting membership were received from Joseph 

 A. Murray, dated Carlisle, Pa., May 31, 1880 ; and from 

 Ogden ]^. Rood, N"ew York, May 10. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the 

 Royal Zoological Society, Amsterdam, dated June 2, 1880 

 (104) ; and the Royal Geological Society of Ireland (104). 



Letters of envoy were received from H. Scheffler, dated 

 Braunschweig, April 30, 1880 ; the Board of Commissioners 

 of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, May 

 20 ; Mr. Frederick Fraley, Philadelphia, June 16 ; and 

 John Ha}^ Assistant Secretary of the Department of State, 

 Washington, May 22. 



A letter was received from the Librarian of the Cincin- 

 nati Public Library, dated May 24, 1880, requesting to be 

 allowed to buy certain volumes of the Transactions of the 

 Spciety. The matter was referred to the -Librarian with 

 power to act- 



A circular letter was received from the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, dated June 1, 1880, asking certain questions con- 

 cerning the condition of the Society and its Library. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Bureau 

 of Mining, Melbourne; the Governor General of India; 

 Academies at St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Rome ; Observatory 

 at Prague ; Bureau of Statistics, Stockholm ; Editors of Flora 

 Batava, Leyden ; Dr. Hermann Scheffler, and the Editor of the 

 Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsig ; M. A. Delesse, and the Editors 

 of the Revue Politique, and Annales des Mines, Paris ; Com- 

 mercial Geographical Society, Bordeaux; Editor of the 

 Revista Euskara, Pamplona ; R. Astronomical Society, 

 Victoria Institute, and Editors of ISTature, London ; Essex 

 Institute, Salem; American Journal, ISTew Haven; Brook- 



