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PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
AMERICAN: PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 
Vou. XXY. JANUARY TO JUNE, 1888. No. 127. 
Stated Meeting, January 6, 1888. 
Present, 22 members. 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
Correspondence was submitted as follows: Letters accepting 
membership from Prof. J. Szombathy, Wien; Mr. S. Castner, 
Jr., Philadelphia. 
Letters acknowledging receipt of diploma from Prof. J. 
Szombathy, Wien; Hon. Victor Duruy, Marquis de Nadaillac, 
Paris; Prof. Edward North, Clinton, N. Y.; Prof. Schele de 
Vere, University of Virginia. 
Letters of envoy from the Mining Department, Melbourne; 
Physikalisches Central-Observatorium, St. Petersburg; Musée 
Guimet, Paris; Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London. 
Letters of acknowledgment of receipt of Proceedings from 
the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta (125); Zodlogical 
Gardens at the Hague (125); University Library, Lund (125); 
Prof. Richard Akerman, Stockholm (125); R. Statistical So- 
ciety, London (124, 125). 
A letter from the Pennsylvania Commission on Amended 
Orthography, Harrisburg, calling attention to the work of the 
Commission, and asking the Society to assist in the examina- 
tion of the defects of our orthography by the appointment of 
a committee or some other action. 
A letter from Harvard University Observatory asking that 
PROC. AMER. PHILOS. soc. xxv. 127. A. PRINTED FEB. 20, 1888. 
