110 [May 4, 
Letters of envoy were received from the Geological Survey 
of India, Calcutta, Nov. 8, 1882; the Royal Saxon Society, 
Dec, 11, 1882; the Royal Leop. Car. Deutschen Akademie, 
Halle, Dec. 7, 1882; the Royal Akademie der Wiss. at Vi- 
enna, Dec. 21, 1882; and the Société d’ Agriculture at Lyons, 
(1 to 109), requesting lacking numbers of the Proceedings, 
which, however, this Society can no longer supply, their 
edition being exhausted, viz., Nos. 5, 17, 21, 28, 26, 29, 80, 31, 
84, 68 and 64. 
A letter requesting exchange of publications was received 
from the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, 108 Broad- 
way, Cincinnati, April 27. On motion it was placed on the 
list of corresponding societies to receive the Proceedings. 
Donations for the Library were received from the Acade- 
mies at Halle an d. S., Vienna, Buda-Pest, Dijon, and Brussels ; 
the Societies at Gorlitz, G6ttingen and Lyons; the Royal 
Saxon and Jablonowski Societies at Leipsig; the German 
Apothecaries’ Union at Halle; the Royal Lombard Institute ; 
the Musée Guimet; the Ethnographical Institute, Zodlogical 
Society, Geographical Society, Polytechnic School, Mining 
Bureau and N. H. Museum at Paris; the Com. Geographical 
Society at Bordeaux; the Revista Huskara; the Royal Astro- 
nomical and Asiatic Societies, Society of Arts, and London 
Nature; Mr. ©. Piazzi Smyth of Edinburgh; Mr. Kd. C. Pick- 
ering of Boston; the American Antiquarian Society; Ameri- 
can Journal of Science; New York Academy of Sciences ; 
Dr. Daniel Draper; Mr. Thomas Dudley; the Franklin Insti- 
tute, Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, and Mr, Henry 
Phillips, Jr., of Philadelphia ; the American Chemical Journal 
and American Journal of Mathematics; United States Naval 
Observatory; United States National Museum; Bureau of 
Education; Cincinnati Society of Natural History; Daven- 
port Academy; Mr. Horatio Hale; and the Mexican National 
Museum. 
Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., communicated ‘A brief account of 
the more important collections of American Archeology in 
the United States.” 
