1880.] i^y 



Letters of envoy were received from the Societe Royale, 

 Upsal, dated Nov. 1879 ; Fondation Teyler, and the Societe 

 Hollandaise, Mai, 1880. Harlem ; Physicalische Gesell- 

 schaft, Berlin, July 20 ; Schvveizerische Gesellschaft, Bern ; 

 Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Aug, 1880 ; and the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, Washington, Oct. 27, 1880. 



A letter of envoy containing a request for exchange of 

 publications was received from the Societe Zoologique et 

 Botanique de Finlande, dated Helsingfors, June, 1880. 



On motion the name of this Society was placed on the List 

 of Correspondents to receive the Proceedings. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Acade- 

 mies at St. Petersburg, Munich, Philadelphia and St. Louis ;. 

 the Observatories at St. Petersburg, Upsal, Vienna, Munich 

 and Turin ; the Royal Society, Upsal ; k.k. Geologischer 

 Reichsanstalt, k.k. Geographische Gesellschaft, and Anthro- 

 pologische Gesellschaft, Vienna ; Geologische Gesellschaft, 

 Berlin ; Herrn F. Sandberger ; Editors of the Fortschritte der 

 Physic, Berlin, and the Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsig ; So- 

 cieties at Ulm, Bremen, Bern, Freiburg i B., the Hague, Harlem 

 and Lille; Museum Teyler, Harlem ; Societe d'Anthropologie, 

 Ecole Polytechnique and Revue Politique, Paris ; Societe de 

 Geographic Commerciale, and Societe des Sciences Physiques 

 et Naturelles, Bordeaux ; Royal Geographical Society, Geo- 

 logical Society, Zoological Society, Nature, and the Chemists^ 

 Journal, London ; Natural History Society, and Mr. Samuel 

 H. Scudder, Boston ; Museum of Comparative Zoologj^^ 

 Cambridge ; R. 1. Historical Society, Providence ; American 

 Journal, New Haven ; Mr. Isaac C. Martindale, Camden,. 

 N. J. ; Medical News, Journal of Pharmacy, Mr. Henry 

 Carvill Lewis, and Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia ; 

 U. S. Department of the Interior, Washington ; American 

 Antiquaries, Chicago ; Oriental and Biblical Journal, Clin- 

 ton ; National Museum, and Ministerio de Fomento, 

 Mexico ; and the Societe Zoologique et Botanique de Fin- 

 lande, Helsingfors. 



The Committee to whom was referred the consideration 



