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Letters acknowledging receipt of Proceedings, No. 126, from 
Sir William Thompson, South Kensington Museum (London) 
and M. Claudio Jannet, Paris. 
The President reported that he had received letters in re- 
sponse to the circular in reference to a Congress to consider 
the question of an International Language, from James M. 
Taylor, President of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; D. 
C. Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 
Md.; Prof. W. LeConte Stevens, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Prof. B. L. 
Gildersleeve, Baltimore, Md.; President of the University of 
South Carolina; Director of the U.S. Nautical Almanac. 
Accessions to the Library were received from Prof; George 
Bauer, Agram, Austria; Prof. P. Steiner, Darmstadt; Natur- 
wissenschaft Verein, Frankfurt, a. O.; Geographische Gesell- 
schaft, Hanover; Prof. Giuseppi Sergi, Rome; R. Academia di 
Ciencias, Madrid; Rousdon Observatory, Devon; Meteorologi- 
cal Council, British Association, Dr. B. W. Richardson, “The 
Karth,” London; Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, 
Board of Trade, Winnipeg; Archeological Institute of Amer- 
ica, Boston; Museum ‘of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge; 
R. I. Historical Society, Providence; New York State Mu- 
seum of Natural History, Albany; Buffalo Historical Society; 
Academy of Sciences, Prof. J. 8. Newberry, New York; Mr. 
W. J. Potts, Camden; Geological Survey of New Jersey, 
Trenton; University of Pennsylvania, Mercantile Library, 
Profs. Lewis M. Haupt, Edwin J. Houston, Messrs. Henry 
Phillips, Jr., Richard Vaux, Com. E. Y. McCauley, Philadel- 
phia; Departments of Justice, State and the Interior, Captain 
John G. Bourke, Washington, D. C.; University of Virginia ; 
Prof. N. H. Winchell, St. Paul; California Academy of 
Sciences, San Francisco; Prof. Mariano Barcena, Mexico. 
The President stated that pursuant to the resolution of the 
Society, he had appointed P. DuBois, Esq., to prepare the 
obituary notice of Prof. James Curtis Booth, and Dr. John A. 
Ryder that of Joseph Zentmayer, and that they had accepted 
the appointments by letter. 
Prof. Houston presented a communication on Some Possible 
