648 



[Dec. 2, 



Brancli of tlie Eo_yal Asiatic Society, dated Shangliai, Oct. 

 25, 1881. 



A letter requesting the completion of sets of Proceedings 

 and Transactions of tHs Society, was received from Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, K. Y., dated Kov. 22, 1881. The matter 

 was referred to the Secretaries, with power to act. 



A circular letter was received from the Secretary of the 

 Prince Edward Island Historical Society, dated. Nov. 17, 1881, 

 Charlottetown. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Mining- 

 Bureau, Melbourne ; Koyal Academy, Berlin ; Zoologischer 

 Anzeiger, Leipzig; Society of JSTorthern Antiquaries, Copen- 

 hagen ; Oesterreichischer Ingenieur- und Architekten Verein, 

 Wien ; Annales des Mines, and Revue Politique, Paris ; Bor- 

 deaux Society of Commercial Geography ; Eoyal Astronom- 

 ical Society, and Nature, London ; Mr. Eobert C. "Winthrop, 

 Boston; Essex Institute, Salem ; American Journal of Sciences, 

 New Haven; New York Historical Society ; American Chemi- 

 cal Society, N. Y. ; Academy of Natural Sciences, The 

 American, and Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia ; U. S. 

 National Museum, and the Bureau of Education, Washington ; 

 The Yirginias, Staunton, Ya.; and State Historical Society of 

 Wisconsin. 



A photograph and a phototype of the late member Wm. 

 Eawle, Esq., were presented to the Society by Mr. Brooke 

 Eaivle. 



A paper by Prof. J. J. Stevenson, entitled " Notes on the 

 Laramie Group in the vicinity of Eaton, New Mexico," was 

 read by title.* 



Mr. Lewis read a paper upon a new substance resembling 

 Dopplerite found in a peat bog near Scranton.* 



A communication was read from Mr. Lesley stating that he 

 had gone away for two or three months, and enclosing a report 

 upon the manner in which he intended to, and had already 

 examined and partly copied the old minutes of the Society. 

 Postponed to Dec. 16th. 



* These papers will be printed in Vol. xx, No. lU. 



