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Stated Meeting, Sept. 20, 1872. 
Present, nine members. 
Vice President, Mr. Frauey, in the Chair. 
A Photograph was received from Mr. A. H. Worthen, 
dated, Springfield, Ill., August 31, 1872. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Con- 
gressional Librarian, Sept. 5th (Proc. Vol. 1. Catalogue 
I., IT.), the Boston N. H. 8., May 15th (XIV., iii. 86, 87,) and 
the London Geological Society (XIV., iii. 86.) 
A letter of envoy was received from the New York State 
Library, dated August 30. 
A letter describing the Museums and Libraries of Ox- 
ford, England, was received from Mr. W. A. Smith, Pro- 
fessor of Moral Philosophy in Columbia, Tennessee, Athen- 
xum, dated, Sept. 14th, 1872. 
A letter was received from D. C. H. Stubbs, dated July 
8th, 1872, respecting the purchase of copies of Photographs 
of Indian Sculpture. On motion the Secretary of the even- 
ing was authorized to purchase a set after due examination 
of their value. 
Donations for the Library were received from the Horti- 
cultural Society in Berlin, the Prussian Academy, the 
Observatory at Turin, the Geographical Society, Revue Poli- 
tique, and Lartét family at Paris, the Edinburg Observatory, 
the Meteorological Office in London, Nature, the Canadian 
Naturalist, Essex Institute, Old and New, Dr. 8. A. Green of 
Boston, American Antiquarian Society, American Journal of 
Science, and Professor O. C. Marsh of New Haven, American 
Chemist, Mr. W. W. Mann, the Dudley Observatory, New 
York State Library, N. J. Historical Society, Franklin 
Institute, Medical News, Journal of Pharmacy, and Prof. 
Kdwin J. Houston of Philadelphia, the Petroleum Monthly, 
the U. 8. Observatory, Bureau of the Interior, Prof. F. L. O. 
Rohrig, the Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of U. 8. En- 
gineers, and the Wisconsin Historical Society. 
The death of Mr. Jacob R. Eckfeld at Haverford, near 
