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Stated Meeting, October 1, 1880. 



Present, 6 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



A letter accepting membership was received from Prof. 

 Ira Remsen, dated Baltimore, September, 24. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the 

 Philosophical Society, Glasgow, Sept. 11 (105) ; Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, Cambridge (106); and Mr. J. H. 

 Crane Coffin, Sept. 18, 1880, Washington, D. C. (106) 



A letter of envoy was received from the Royal Observa- 

 tory, Greenwich, dated Sept. 1, 1880. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Royal 

 Academies at Berlin and Brussels ; the Zoologischer 

 Anzeiger ; Royal Venetian Institute ; Revue Politique ; 

 London Kature ; Prof. Richard Owen ; Free Public Library, 

 New Bedford ; American Chemical Society ; Prof. E. D. 

 Cope; U. S. Bureau of Education, and the Kansas Histori- 

 cal Society. 



The Secretary reported that Dr. Brinton accepted the 

 appointment to prepare an obituary notice of Prof. S. S. 

 Haldeman. 



Mr. Fraley reported that the address in memory of the 

 late President, George B. Wood, M.D., LL.D., prepared at 

 the request of the Society, by Dr. Henry Hartshorne, would 

 be delivered in the Hall of the College of Physicians, on 

 Monday evening, Oct. 11, at 8 o'clock. 



Pending nominations, iTos. 904, 909 to 919, and new nomi- 

 nation, No. 920 were read, and the meeting was adjourned. 



Special Meeting, October 11, 1880. 



(In the Hall of the College of Physicians.) 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



After an introduction by the President, Dr. Hartshorne 

 addressed the members and invited guests of the College of 



