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Stated Meeting, December 7, 1888. 
Present, 19 members. 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
Letters of envoy were received from the Mining Department, 
Melbourne; Musée Teyler, Harlem; Maatschappij der Neder- 
landsche Letterkunde, Leiden; Royal Observatory, Greenwich ; 
Royal Statistical Society, London. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Geo- 
logical Survey of India, Calcutta; K. K. Geologische Reichs- 
_anstalt, Drs. Aristides Brezina, Friederich Miiller, Dionys Stiir, 
Vienna; Dr. Julius Platzmann, Leipzig; Dr. Henri de Saus- 
sure, Geneva; K. Istituto Lombardo, Milan; Mr. A. Des 
Cloizeaux, Mr. Victor Duruy, Paris; Radcliffe Observatory, 
Oxford; Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society ; 
Mr. Henry Reed (127), Dr. W. J. A. Bonwill (126), Philadel- 
phia. 
Letters of acknowledgment for diplomas were received 
from Prof. Dr. Conrad Leemans, Leiden; Prof. Dr. Adolph 
Bastian, Berlin; Dr. Julius Platzmann, Leipzig; Prof, Dr. A. 
Réville, Dr. Paul Topinard, Paris; Capt. Richard Somers 
Hayes, New York. 
Accessions to the Library were announced from Mr. Julius 
Lott, Vienna; Mr. Henry Roller, Berlin; “Zoologischer An- 
zeiger,” Leipzig; Dr. F. von Holtzendorff, Stuttgart; Musée 
Teyler, Harlem; Maatschappij van Nederlandsche Letter- 
kunde, Leiden; Instituto y Observatorio de Marina, San Fer- 
nando (Spain); Sociedad de Geografia, Lisbon; Royal Obser- 
vatory, Greenwich; Geological and Natural History Survey of 
Canada, Montreal; Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cam- 
bridge; Dr. J. S. Newberry, Capt. Jas. E. Cole, New York; 
Geological Survey of New Jersey, Trenton; University of 
Pennsylvania, Drs, Charles W. Dulles, Charles A. Oliver, Mr. 
Henry Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia; Department of State, Lieut. 
A. W. Greely, Washington; Observatorio Astronomico Na- 
cional de Tacubaya; Free Public Library, San Francisco. 
