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Geological Society, Victoria Institute, Society of Antiquaries 
Mr. Archibald Geikie, London; H. C. de S. Abbott, Philadel- 
phia. 
A communication from Dr. W. C. Winslow, in reference to 
the Egyptian Exploration Fund, was read. 
Accessions to the Library were reported from Dr. Otto: Don- 
ner, Helsingfors; Hungarian Academy, Buda Pesth ; K. K. Zool- 
ogisch-Botanische Gesellschaft, K. K. Geologische Reichsan- 
stalt, Wien; Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Bamberg; K. P. 
-Geologische Landesanstalt und Bergakademie, K. P. Meteorolo- 
gisches Institut, Berlin; Oberlausitzische Gesellschaft, Gorlitz; 
Deutsche Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologie, etc., Baron EH. de 
Selys Lonchamps, Liége ; Société de Geographie, Paris; Insti- 
tuto y Observatorio de Marina, San Fernando; Philosophical 
and Philological Societies, Prof. Joseph Prestwich, London; 
Dr. George M. Dawson, Montreal; Publishers of the “New 
England Magazine,” Boston; American Antiquarian Society, 
Worcester; New York State Museum of Natural History, 
Albany ; Publishers of “The Brooklyn Medical Journal ;” Dr. 
Persifor Frazer, Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia; Signal 
Office, Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 
Dr. Frazer made the following oral communication : 
In a recent visit to the eastern portion of Cuba under exceptionally 
favorable circumstances, I was enabled to obtain some interesting data on 
the geology of this part of the island which I believe to be new and im- 
portant, and which when put into form will constitute a paper on these 
subjects. As my work on this paper is not complete, I do not intend to 
dwell upon any part of it to-night, further than to say that the area which 
I was enabled to examine included portions of the Sierra Mestra range 
and its foot hills between Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba; ten miles 
north of that city and in the neighborhood of Christo on the Enramados 
R. R. ; and south-west of Santiago in the hills surrounding the pretty 
village of El Cobre. The many mines of iron, manganese and copper, 
and the localities where deposits of these metals were indicated, were not, 
however, the only interesting features to the geologist. The rocks them- 
Selves told an important tale of the age of this part of the world. Out- 
side of an official but not exhaustive examination of this region by Sefior 
Castro, and examinations for special purposes by Messrs. Graham, Dr. 
J. P. Kimball and others, no serious study of its measures has been made. 
