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Stated Meeting, April 21st, 1871. 
Pror. CREsson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Present, eleven members. 
A Photograph for the Album was received from Prof. Alex- 
ander Braun, of Berlin. 
Letters acknowledging the receipt of the Society’s recent pub- 
lications were received from the Institute at Halifax, (entire 
series of Proceedings No. 1-84), New York Lyceum (85); 
Royal Society of Edinburgh, 78, 79-81, and Trans. (XIII. 3); 
and the Royal Saxon Society (XIII. 3). 
Letters of Knvoy were received from the Society at Gor- 
litz, and the Editors of Old and New. 
Donations for the library were received from Dr. Braun, 
of Berlin, the Upper Lausatian Society, the Anthropological 
Society and Geological Institute at Vienna, the Italian Geo- 
logical Committee, M. Seguin ainé of Paris, the Linnean, 
Chemical, Asiatic and Antiquarian Societies in London, the 
Editors of Nature, the Royal Society at Edinburgh, the Phil- 
osophical Society at Glasgow, the Institute of Sciences at Hali- 
fax, the Peabody Academy at Salem, Silliman’s Journal, Prof. 
Vall of Albany, the Young Men’s Association at Buftalo, Mr. 
H. C. Bolton of New York, the New Jersey State Geologist, 
the New Jersey Historical Society, the Franklin Institute, 
and the chief of the U. 8. corps of Topographical Engineers. 
The death of Wm. Haidinger of Vienna, on the 19th ultimo, 
was announced with appropriate remarks by Dr. Gentb. 
The death of Edward Lartét, in the department of Gers, 
during the late German investment of Paris, was announced 
by the Secretary. Mr. Cope added his personal testimony to 
the value of the Paleontological labors of the deceased. 
Prof. Cope offered for publication in the Proceedings, a Pre- 
liminary Report on the Vertebrata discovered in the Port Ken- 
nedy Cave. 
