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1888,] PAM E 
Stated Meeting, June 16, 1883. 
Present, 5 members. 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Royal 
Academy at Lisbon (109, 110, 111), and Royal Academy at 
Amsterdam (109), 
Letters of seid were received from the Royal Avademy at 
Lisbon, June, 1882; the Museum Teyler; the Société Holland- 
aise, March 30; the Royal Academy at Amsterdam, March 1; 
and the Surgeon General’s Office, Washington, June 6. 
Letters from M. J. Vidal, at Cairo; M. Gaston Planté, 
Paris; Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr, Providence, R. I.; Edmund 
Gol damit) of Hdinburgh; and Mr. A. R. Grote, of Buffalo, 
were read, 
Donations for the Library were received from the Acade- 
mies at Amsterdam and Rome; the Societies at Salem, Boston 
and Worcester ; the Trigonometrioal Survey of India; the 
Holland Societ ty, and Museum Te eae Dr. G. D. H. Weyer, 
of Kiel; the Geographical Societies at Paris and Hoek: 
Revue Polisianne, and Keole des “Minal: British eooauon, 
Victoria Tnstitute, Royal Astronomical, pull Antiquarian ts. 
ties and London Nature; Canadian Institute ; Cambridge Mu- 
Seum; Medical Journal; New York Observatory; Rutger’s 
College ; Franklin Institute, Historical Society, College of 
Pharmacy, H. Phillips, Jr, and Dr. P. Frazer; American 
Chemical Journal; Smithsonian Institution, National Muse- 
um, Engineers’ Devartinant Bureau of uaision and Fish 
Commission : Wabash College; Medical Journal, at Indian- 
apolis; and tite Ministerio de Fomento, 
The death of Col. Robert S. Williamson, at San Fr: WNCISCO, 
Noy. 11, 1882 2, was Kubbeaabd by Dr. Horn, 
The di sath of the Hon. Judge George Sharswood, at Phila- 
delphia, May 28, 1883, aged 78, was announced by Mr. Fraley. 
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