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Stated Meeting, September 7, 1888. 
Present, 2 members. 
Vice-President, Dr. RUSCHENBERGER, in the Chair. 
Correspondence was submitted as follows: 
Letters desiring exchanges from the Observatorio Meteoro- 
légico-Magnético Central-Mexico, and the Deutsche Wissen- 
schaftliche Verein, Santiago; New Haven Colony Historical 
Society. On motion, the requests were granted. 
Circular from the R. Society of N.S. W. offering premiums 
and medals for 1888, 1889, 1890. 
Circular from the Société d’ Anthropologie de Paris in rela- 
tion to the proposed exposition in 1889. 
Circular from the International Congress of Americanists in 
regard to the meeting to be held at Berlin in October, 1888. 
Circular from the University of Bologna, thanking the 
Society for sending a delegate to its 800th anniversary. 
The following deaths were announced: 
Sir George Burrows, London. 
Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Jamaica Plains, Mass., June 
8, 1888, xt. 78. 
Rev. Charles W. King, Cambridge, England, March 25, 
1888 (born Sept. 18, 1818). 
Mr. Philip H. Law, Philadelphia, May 22, 1888, set. 49. 
Prof. Henry Carvill Lewis, Philadelphia, July 20, 1888, 
act. 36. 
On motion, the President was authorized to appoint at his 
discretion suitable persons to prepare the usual obituary notices 
for Messrs. Law and Lewis. 
Prof. Coleman Sellers presented his photograph for the 
Society’s Album. 
Letters of envoy were received from the Mining Department, 
Melbourne, Victoria; Linnean Society of New South Wales, 
