1888.] 1538 
of the XVIth Volume of the Transactions, which would then 
be issued. 
The President reported that he had received and paid over 
to the Treasurer $132.76, the quarterly interest due April 1, 
1888, on the Michaux Legacy. 
And the Society was adjourned by the President. 
Stated Meeting, May 4, 1888. 
Present, 29 members. 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
Prof. W. P. Wilson, a lately elected member, was presented 
to the Chair, and took his seat. 
Correspondence was submitted as follows, viz.: Program of 
the Annual Poetic Contest for the Prizes awarded by the Acad- 
ernia Regia Nederlandica. 
Letters of envoy from Société de Litterature Finnoise, Hel- 
singfors; K. Siichsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Leip- 
“lg. 
Letters of acknowledgment from Société Royale des Sciences 
de Liege; Prof. G. Sergi, Rome; Radcliffe Observatory, Ox- 
ford, England; Buffalo Library (126); Newberry Library, 
Chicago; Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Chapel Hill, N. 
C. (96-126); Prof. C. V. Riley, Washington, D. C. (119). 
The President reported that he had received, in answer to 
the proposed invitation for a congress to consider the project 
of an international scientific language, letters from Institute 
of Technology, Boston, Mass.; W. EH. A. Axon, Manchester, 
England; Dr. L. Samenhoff, Warsaw, Russia; Yorkshire Geo- 
logical and Polytechnic Society; Dr. F. S. Krauss, Vienna, 
Austria. 
PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. xxv. 127. T. PRINTED MAy 15, 1888. 
