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New, Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoology, Mr. Ed- 
mund Quincey, Silliman’s Journal, New York State Library, 
American Literary Bureau, Franklin Institute, Medical News, 
College of Pharmacy, Boar d of Water Works, Fairmount Park 
Commission, Penn Monthly, C. M. W1 1eatley of Phoenixville 
Penner tania Board of Public Charities, Smithsonian linet 
tute, U.S. N. Observatory, and Georgia Fisteniea) Society. 
The Committee to whom was referred the Aztec grammar 
and vocabulary of Mr. Burck, reported against its publication, 
and the Committee was discharged from further consideration 
of the subject. 
Mr. H. W.¥ield, a member of the Society, was appointed to 
prepare an obituary notice of the late Sir John F. W. Hershel. 
Mr. Lesley communicated to the members present, certain 
geological facts respecting the percentage of volatile matter in 
the six-foot coal bed near Ursina, Somerset County, Pennsyl- 
vania, and the percentage of titanic acid in the iron ores near 
Greensboro, North Carolina, with a view to placing them on 
record. 
Mr. Chase communicated a note upon the English wind-ta- 
bles, and a note upon the nature of the Tidal Wave. 
Mr. Cope announced that 800 species of fish had been re- 
ceived by him from Vienna, in good condition, being that part 
of Prof. Hyrtl’s Osteological Collection w high Prof. Cope ‘had 
secured, against the competition of the British eae and 
other Kuropean Cabinets desirous of possessing it, and de- 
scribed the admirable character of the preparations. 
Pending nominations, Nos. 677 and 678 were read. 
An extract was read from a letter of M. Carlier to M. 
Durand, respecting the Michaux rentes. 
On motion of Mr. Cope, an appropriation was made of an 
additional sum of $35, to cover the total expense for the illus- 
trations of his paper on Megaptera Bellicosa, published in the 
Hes Baa ae weedy 
proceedings, and his paper on the Fishes of the Lesser Antilles 
published in the transactions. 
And the meeting was adjourned. 
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