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Sellers, Aubrey H. Smith, W. P. Tatham, Richard Wood, 
Com. E. Y. McCauley, Philadelphia; Mr. William M. Canby, 
Wilmington, Del. U. S. Naval Institute, Annapolis; Johns 
Hopkins University, Maryland Institute for the Promotion of 
the Mechanic Arts, Baltimore; Smithsonian Institution, Library 
of the Surgeon-General’s Office, U. S. Geological Survey, Sig- 
nal Office, War Department, Col. William Ludlow, Gen. Mont- 
gomery ©. Meigs, Col. Garrick Mallery, Prof. J. H. C. Coffin, 
Messrs. Albert S. Gatschet, Charles V. Riley, Charles A. 
Schott, William B. Taylor, Washington, D.C.; Leander Mc- 
Cormick Observatory, Prof. J. N. Mallet, University of Vir- 
ginia; Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Chapel Hill, N. C.; 
Elliott Society of Science and Art, Charleston; University of 
South Carolina, Columbia; Georgia Historical Society, Savan- 
nah; University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Prof. E. W. Clay- 
pole, Akron, O.; Cincinnati Observatory, Prof. James M. Hart, 
Cincinnati; Dennison University, Granville, O.; Rev. Henry 
S. Osborn, Oxford, O.; Prof. Edgar F. Smith, Springfield; Dr. 
Robert Peter, Lexington, Ky.; Tennessee Philosophical So- 
ciety, Columbia; Profs. Henry S. Frieze, Alexander Winchell, 
Ann Arbor, Mich.; Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, Bloomington, Ind.; 
University of Illinois, Champaign; Chicago Academy of Sci- 
ence, Chicago Historical Society, Newberry Library, Chicago; 
Rantoul Literary Society, Rantoul, Il.; Prof. John C. Branner, 
Little Rock, Ark.; Davenport (lowa) Academy of Natural 
Sciences; State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison ; 
State Historical Society, Washburn College, Topeka, Kans.; 
Colorado Scientific Society, Denver; University of California, 
Profs. John and Joseph LeConte, Berkeley, California. 
The deaths of the following members were announced : 
Prof. Richard A. Proctor (born, September 3, 1837; died, 
September 12, 1888). 
Mr. John Price Wetherill (born, April 4, 1828; died, Sep- 
tember 17, 1888). 
On motion, the President was authorized to appoint a suita- 
ble person to prepare the usual obituary notice of Mr, Weth- 
erill. 
