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212 [July 20, 
Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr., of Providence, R. I., communicated, 
through Prof. Cope,— 
1. A revision of the Lystopetalidw, a family of Chilognath 
myriopoda; with a notice of the genus Cambala, (See page 
177, 195.) 
2. On the Morphology of the Myriopoda, with a plate. (See 
page 197.) 
Mr. A. R. Grote, of Buffalo, communicated : An Introduc- 
tion to the North American Noctwidwe. (See page 184.) 
Pending nominations, Nos. 985 to 1004, were read, 
And the meeting was adjourned. 
Stated Meeting, July 20, 1883. 
Present, 4 members. 
Curator, Dr. Horn, in the Chair. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Royal 
Library, Berlin (112); the Wiirtemberg V. N. V. (109, 110, 
111); the Prague Observatory (107, 108, 109); New Hamp- 
shire Historical Society (118), Essex Institute (113), Ameri- 
can Antiquarian Society (118), Rhode Island Historical So- 
ciety (113), Connecticut Historical Society (113), W. D. Whit- 
ney (113), New Jersey Historical Society (113), Buffalo So- 
ciety of Natural Science (113), W. B. Taylor (118), Theodore 
Gill (113), Wisconsin State Historical Society (113), and Geor- 
gia Historical Society (118). 
Letters of envoy were received from the Society of Sciences 
at Bordeaux, the Hungarian Academy, Lisbon Academy, Bel- 
gian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Institut Ethnographique 
at Paris. 
Donations for the Library were received from the Royal 
Academies of St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna, Buda-Pest, Mu- 
nich, Brussels, Lisbon ; from the Societies at Bremen, Emden, 
Batavia, Stuttgard, Bordeaux, Dublin; from the Observato- 
