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Letters acknowledging receipt of Diplomas were received 

 from Dr. E. H. Yon Baumhauer, Haarlem, Jan 15, 1881 ; U. 

 G. Armstrong, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Jan. 13, 1881 ; and 

 Sir Wm. Thomson, Glasgow University, Jan. 19, 1881. 



A photograph of Dr. Benjamin Howard Rand was pre- 

 sented for insertion in the Album. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Astro- 

 nomical Society at Leipsig (106 and List); and the Ameri- 

 can Statistical Association, 19 Boj^lston Place, Boston (106). 



A letter of envoy was received from the Meteorological 

 Office, London, Jan. 1881. 



A request for missing N"os. 88, 105 and after, from the 

 Cambridge Philosophical Society, England, was, on motion, 

 referred to the Secretaries with power to act. 



A request for Transactions Part 3, Vol. XV, for the !N'u- 

 mismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, was re- 

 ferred to the Secretaries with power to act. 



A letter from the Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris re- 

 questing subscriptions to the Paul Broca monument was 

 read. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Senck- 

 enburg Natural History Society, Frankfurt a. M.; the Zoo- 

 logischer Anzeiger, Leipsig; Nassau Natural History Union ; 

 Academia dei Lincei ; Aunales des Mines, and Revue 

 Politique, Paris ; Societe de Geographic Commerciale, Bor- 

 deaux ; Meteorological Council and Nature, London ; Geo- 

 logical Survey of Canada ; Institute of Technology, Boston ; 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology and Harvard College Li- 

 brary, Cambridge ; American Journal of Arts and Sciences, 

 New Haven ; Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, College 

 of Pharmacy, Mr. F. T. Freeland and Mr. Henry Phillips, 

 Jr. Philadelphia ; Mr. Thos. H. Dudley, Camden ; Histori- 

 cal Society of Delaware, Wilmington; the Bureau of Edu- 

 cation, Washington ; and the Kansas Historical Societ3^ 



Dr. Brinton read an obituary notice of Prof. S. S. Halde- 

 man, a member of the Society. 



Prof. J. J. Stevenson communicated a paper entitled "The 



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