1880.J 1*^^ 



Stated Meeting, Novemhev 19, 1880. 



Present, 16 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



A letter of acknowledgment was received from the New 

 York Academy of Sciences, October 23 [Q'i, 75, 76, 79, 80, 

 89, 97, 102, 104). 



A letter of envoy was received from the Royal Dublin 

 Society, dated September, 1880. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Mining 

 Department, Melbourne ; Academies at St. Petersburg and 

 Berlin; Batavian Society, Harlem; Geographical Society 

 and Revue Politique, Paris ; Revista Euscara, Pamplona ; 

 Nature, London ; Essex Institute, Salem ; Professors Brush 

 and Dana, New Haven ; Franklin Institute, Historical So- 

 ciety, American Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, 

 Editor of the American, and Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr. Phila- 

 delphia; Revista Cientifica and Ministerio de Fomento, 

 Mexico. 



The death of Mr. Henry Wharton, November 11, at Phila- 

 delphia, aged 53, was announced by Mr. J. S. Price, and, on 

 motion, Mr. Jos. B. Townsend was requested to prepare an 

 obituary notice of the deceased. 



The death of Dr. Alexander Wilcocks, November 10, at 

 Philadelphia, aged 62, was announced \)j Mr. Price. 



The death of Prof. John Rudolf von Wagner, at Wiirtz- 

 burg, October 4, aged 58 (born at Leipsig, February 13, 

 1822), was announced by the Secretary. 



Mr. Dubois offered the following from his note-book, in 

 the U. S. Mint: 



" November 19, 1880. Professor Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 brought an engraved disk for examination. It was found in Guatamala, 

 and at first view it seems to be a coin. It is not that, however ; the lines 

 and figures being chased with a graving tool, quite too slow an operation 

 for making currency. ' 



"On one side is a wolf, among trees ; and on the other a tapir, behind 

 which stands a man. A hole, rudely punched, must have served for hang- 



