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Stated Meeting, Aug. 18th, 1871. 
Present, two members. 
Secretary, Mr. T'REGO, in the chair. 
Photographs were received from Prof. Max Miiller, of Ox- 
ford, England, and from M. Stanislaus Julien, Membre de 
iP ea Paris. 
A letter accepting membership was received from Prof. 
Cleveland Abbe, dated Washington, D. C., July 24, 1871. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the New 
York City University (86). 
Donations for the library were received from the Hungarian ) 
Academy ; Herr K. Magey ; the Society at Moscow ; the Rus- 
sian Sia Prussian Academy ; Geological Shen and 
Botanical Society of Berlin; the Societies at Gottingen and 
Bremen; the Geographical Scdieby at Paris; the London As- 
fonciaival Society and Meteorological Bitoni: Editors of 
Nature, Cornwell Polytechnical Society ; Peabody Museum ; 
Essex Tnatitetas Medical News; and U.S. Department of En- 
gineers at eo tiagicn. 
The death of Mr. Sidney G. Fisher, a member of the Society, 
at his residence near Rising Sun, Philadelphia, July 25th, 
| 1871, in the 63d year of his age, was announced. 
| Mr. Chase presented some tables of daily Rainfalls at the 
Observatorio do Infante Don Luiz, Lisbon, from 1855 to 1870, 
with some comparisons, indic ated an opposition between the 
| lunar daily rains at Lisbon and Philadelphia, similar to the 
one he had pointed out as existing between the solar daily 
rains at the same stations. 
And the meeting was adjourned. 
Stated Meeting Sept. 15th, 1871. 
Present, two members. 
Vice-President, Mr. FRALEY, in the chair. 
A letter accepting membership was received from Mr. B.C. 4 
Tilghman, dated Philadelphia, Aug. 1871. 
Photographs for the Album were received from Prof, Geo. 
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