300 LOct, 19, 
for the ‘Henry M. Phillips’ Prize Essay Fund,” the following 
members—Messrs. Richard Vaux, Chairman, Henry Phillips, 
Jr, William V. McKean, Furman Sheppard, and Joseph C. 
Fraley. ie 
Accessions to the Library were reported from the Asiatic 
Society of Japan, Yokohama; Royal Society of Tasmania; 
Publishers of the “ Naturwissenschaftliche Wochenschrift,” 
Berlin; Mr. Leopold Einstein, Niirnberg; Société Fribour- 
geoise des Sciences Naturelles, Fribourg; Philological Society, 
Cambridge, Kng.; Mr. R. A. Macfie, Clinton, Scotland; Boston 
Society of Civil Engineers; Rev. Edward KE. Hale, Roxbury; 
Board of Directors of City Trusts, American Academy of 
Music, Pennsylvania Historical Society, Messrs. Henry Phillips, 
Jr., L. Voission, Philadelphia; Pennsylvania Geological Sur- 
vey, Harrisburg; University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Société 
“ Alzate,” Mexico. 
A photograph was received for the Society’s album from 
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Miiller, Vienna. 
Letters of envoy from the Physikalische Gesellschaft, Berlin ; 
K. Siichsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Leipzig; Mete- 
orological Office, London; U.S. Geological Survey, Washing- 
fon, D, Ci 
Letters of acknowledgment for 126 and others, from the 
Institut Hgyptien, Cairo (126, 127); Societas pro Fauna and 
Flora Fennica, Helsingfors (126); Imp. Academy of Sciences, 
St. Petersburg (126); Prof. Dr. Friedrich Miiller, Vienna (126); 
Naturwissenschaften Verein, Regensburg (125); Académie R. 
Danoise des Sciences et des Lettres, Copenhagen (126); Acadé- 
mie R, des Sciences de Lisbonne (119, 120, 121, 122, 124, and 
Report on Volaptik); Prof. J. D. Whitney, Cambridge, Mass. 
(126); Prof. J. W. Moore, Easton (126, 127); Smithsonian In- 
stitution, Washington, D. C. (two boxes of exchanges); Ob- 
servatorio Meteorologico Central, Mexico (102, 103, 104, 106, 
107, 108, 116, 125, 126); Dr. Jesus Sanchez, Mexico (126). 
Letters of acknowledgment for 127 from the Comité Géo- 
logique de la Russe, Imp. Academy of Sciences, Russian Geo- 
graphical Society, St. Petersburg; Dr. Mattheeus Much, Vienna; 
