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Stated Meeting, March 15, 1872. 
Present, 12 members. 
Vice-President, Mr. Franny, in the Chair. 
Prof. Edwin J. Houston, a newly elected member was pre- 
sented to the presiding officer and took his seat. 
Photographs for the album were received from Mr. George ‘ 
Davidson, U.S. Coast Survey, and from Prof. O. C. Marsh, 
of New Haven. 
A letter requesting exchange of publication was received 
from Prof. C. F. Chandler, Editor of the American Chemist, 
/ dated School of Mines of Columbia College, corner of 49th 
\ St. and Fourth Avenue, New York, March 12,1872. On 
motion, the American Chemist was ordered to be placed on 
the list of correspondents, to receive the Proceedings. 
A circular letter was received from the Royal Academy of 
Sciences of Belgium, inviting the Society to assist at its 
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Centennial Anniversary, May 28th and 29th next ensuing. 
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Letters of envoy were received from the P. O. Society at 
Konigsberg, dated July 10, 1871, and from the Central Bu- 
reau of Statistics at Stockholm, dated Nov. 4, 1871. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Central 
Bureau of Statisties at Stockholm (81 to 85). Le Bureau des 
Longitudes, at Paris, dated Nov. 19, 1871 (82, 83); Feb. 14, 
1872 (86). The Smithsonian Institute, Feb. 28, 1872 (87), 
and the Congressional Library, March 5, 1872 (XIV iii.). 
Donations for the Library were received from the ©. B. of 
Statistics of Sweden, the Society at Konigsberg, the Royal 
Academy at Berlin, the K. K. Geological Institute and 
Anthropological Society at Vienna, the Royal Library at 
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i Munich, the Montsouris Observatory and Bureau des Logi- 
tudes at Paris, the Revue Politique, the Royal Geological 
Society of Cornwall, the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 
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Cambridge, Mass.; the American Journal of Science, the 
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New York Lyceum of Natural History, the Albany Insti- 
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| tute, Prof. Chandler, the New Jersey Historical Society, the 
American Pharmaceutical Society, the Medical News and 
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