1880. J 15<^ . 



Stated Meeting, October 35, 1880. 



Present, 12 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Botanical Gar- 

 den at St. Petersburg, and the Meteorological Office in 

 London. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Botani- 

 cal Garden at St. Petersburg, the Zoologischer Anzeiger, 

 Prof Otto Schmidt of Strasbourg!! ; the Geographical 

 Societies of Paris and Bordeaux ; Pevue Politique ; London 

 Nature ; Chemists' Journal ; Canadian Naturalist ; Essex 

 Institute ; Harvard College Library ; American Antiquarian 

 Society ; American Journal of Science ; Franklin Insti- 

 tute ; American Journals of the Medical Sciences, and of 

 Pharmacy; Mr. Russell Thayer; the U. S. Coast Survey; 

 Cincinnati Society of Natural History, and the Ministerio 

 de Fomento of Mexico. 



A report of the Committee on the Magellanic Prize essay 

 was called for. 



The death of Prof. Benjamin Pierce, at Cambridge, Oct. 

 6, aged 71, was announced by the Secretary, who read a 

 notice of the deceased from the pen of Thos. Hill, late 

 President of Harvard Colleo;e. 



Dr. Seidensticker described an amusing specimen of En- 

 glish poetry, which was read by the Secretary at his request ; 

 a dedication to the Chancellor of the University at Lund, 

 and Senator of the Kingdom of Sweden, the most honorable 

 Lord Count Charles Gyllenborg, Discertatio Gradualis de 

 Plantatione Ecclesice Svecanm in America, by Tobias Er. 

 Biorck, Americano-Dalekarleus. Upsalse Literis Werneri- 

 anis, A. D. 1700. . 



Mr. Lesley drew attention to Dr. P. J. J. Yalentini's 

 very satisfactory investigation of the probable fabrication of 

 Landa's Mayan alphabet just published in the Proceedings 

 of the American Antiquarian Society (No. 75, page 59 et 



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