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balhos Geologecos de Portugal, Lisboa; Society of Antiqua- 
ries, London; Boston Society of Natural History ; Museum of 
Comparative Zovlogy, Harvard University, Cambridge ; Prov- 
idence Franklin Society; Mr. Charles J. Hoadly, Hartford; 
Industrial Education Association, Dr. J. 8. Newberry, New 
York; Mercantile Library, Commissioners for the Erection of 
the Public Buildings, Messrs. Thomas Hockley, Henry Phillips, 
Jr., Philadelphia; Johns Hopkins University, Editor of the 
“American Journal of Philology,” Baltimore; Adjutant Gen- 
eral’s Office, D. C.; Mrs. L. M. Morehead, Cincinnati; The 
Newberry Library, Chicago; Lick Observatory, Sacramento ; 
California Historical Society, San Francisco. 
The special committee appointed January 20th, to examine 
the papers of Prof. Cope, reported in favor of publishing those 
on the Eryops and the Puerco Fauna; on that on Lemurine 
Reversion it did not report favorably. 
Prof. T. B. Stowell presented through the Secretaries papers 
on the Hypoglossal nerve, the Accessory nerve, and Glosso- 
pharyngeal nerve of the domestic cat. 
Mr. Frank Jordan, Jr., presented through the Secretaries a 
paper on The Aboriginal Pottery of the Middle Atlantic 
States. 
Pending nomination No. 1176 was read. 
Mr. Philip C. Garrett, chairman of the committee appointed 
by the Society to procure for it the portrait of Baron von 
Humboldt, painted from life at Berlin in 1856, by Mr. J. R. 
Lambdin, at the request of Messrs. Henry D. Gilpin and Alex- 
ander Dallas Bache, reported that it had been purchased for 
$350, and on behalf of the following gentlemen who had con- 
tributed for that purpose, formally presented it to the Society : 
Messrs. G. W. Anderson, John R. Baker, R. Meade Bache, 
George H. Boker, W. G. A. Bonwill, Geo. W. Childs, E. W. 
Clark, J. M. Da Costa, Frederick Fraley, Philip C. Garrett, 
Horace Jayne, EH. Otis Kendall, Wm. V. McKean, J. Sergeant 
Price, James W. Robins, Moncure Robinson, J. R. Shipley, 
Wm. P.. Tatham, Frank Thomson, Richard Vaux, Joseph 
Wharton, Henry Winsor and Richard Wood. 
