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Stated Meeting, March 2, 1888. 
Present, 18 members. 
President FRALEY in the Chair. 
Correspondence was submitted as follows: Letters accepting 
membership from Mr. Alexander Biddle, Philadelphia; Prof. 
Hdmund B. Wilson, Bryn Mawr. 
A letter offering resignation from membership, from Gen. 
Russell Thayer, Philadelphia. On motion the resignation was 
accepted. 
A letter from the Society of Naturalists, Kieff, Russia, 
requesting exchanges, which was so ordered (96-127). 
The President presented a letter from the Park Engineer in 
reference to an annual appropriation for the Michaux grove, 
which on motion was referred to Council. 
The Newberry Library of Chicago was placed on the Ex- 
change List to receive Proceedings from No. 96. 
Letters of envoy from Société Impériale Russe de Géogra- 
phie, St. Petersburg; Boston Society of Natural History, 
Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass. 
Letters of acknowledgment from Académie R. Danoise des 
Sciences et des Lettres, Copenhagen (124, 125); Geological and 
Natural History Survey, Ottawa, Canada (126); Boston So- 
ciety of Natural History (123, 124, 125, 126); Boston Public 
Library (125, 126); Brown University, Providence (126); 
Academy of Sciences, St. Louis (126). 
Accessions to the Library were received from the Royal 
Society of New South Wales, Sydney; Geological Survey of 
India, Calcutta; Société Impériale Russe de Géographie, St. 
Petersburg; Dr. L. Samenhof, Warsaw; Académie Royale de 
Copenhague, Société R. des Antiquaires du Nord, Copenhague ; 
Société R. des Sciences de Lidge; Prof. Antonio Favaro, Bib- 
lioteca N. Centrale, Firenze; R. Istituto Lombardo di Scienze 
Lettere, Milan; Ecole des Mines, Paris; Commissao dos Tra- 
