PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 
Vol. SUL, 1871. No. 86 
Stated Meeting, January 6. 
Present, seventeen members. 
Gro. B. Woop, President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Eckley Coxe, lately elected, was presented to the pre- 
siding officer and took his seat. 
The resignation of Dr. D. F. Condie on account of ill health 
was received, and accepted. 
A photograp h of Mr. Thomas Davidson, dated Geological 
Society, Somerset House, London, Dec. 6, 1870, was received. 
Letters of acknowl] inca were received from the London 
Geological Society (Proceedings No. 82); the Smithsonian 
Institution (83); and the Swiss Society at Berne, dated No- 
vember, 1869 (Proceedings, vols. X and XI). 
__ Donation 1s for the Library were received from the Moscow 
VieEle Ss, 
‘heee samy, R. Institution of G. B., London Asoo ctead 
Chemical and Geological Societies, Leeds Philosophical go. 
ciety, R. Dublin Society, Peabody Museum at Boston, Boston 
Boston Geological Soviety, Silas Society, Bavarian 
N.H.5S., Silliman’s Journal, American Antiquarian Society, 
Frank - Institute, College of Physicians, Penn Monthly, U. 
S. Observatory, the Treasury Bureau, and Editors of ree) 
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