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Stated Meeting, October 19, 1888. 
Present, 12 members, 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Fayen- 
baya Observatory (112), the Pennsylvania Historical Society 
(118), and the Franklin Institute (Cat.). 
A letter of envoy was received from the United States De- 
partment of State for the Government of the Netherlands. 
A letter from Edmund de Schweinitz, President of the So- 
ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Heathen, 
dated Bethlehem, Pa., October 9, 1888, requesting the return 
of the Zeisberger and Perleus MSS. to their owners, was read 
and referred to the next Stated Meeting for consideration, the 
Curators being instructed to examine into the subject in the 
meantime and report. (See page 284.) 
Donations for the Library were received from the Royal 
Academy of Science at Rome; Royal Venetian Institute; 
Sociéié de Géographie and Revue Politique, at Paris; Société 
de Geographie Commerciale, Bordeaux; Observatory at San 
Fernando; London Nature; Boston Natural History Society ; 
Rhode Island Historical Society ; New York Academy of Sci- 
ences; Cornell University ; Journal Medical Sciences; Chemi- 
cal Journal; United States Naval. Institute; United States 
National Museum; and Mr. H. T’. Cresson, of Philadelphia. 
An obituary notice of Dr. John Forsyth Miegs was read by 
Dr. William Pepper. (See page 266, above.) 
Mr. T. U. Walter was excused from preparing an obituary 
notice of the late John Trautwine, as he had already read one 
before the Society in Washington, which would be published, 
The death of Dr. J. Lawrence Smith, at Louisville, Ky., 
October 12, aged 64, was announced. 
A memoir entitled “The history of the Mexicans, from their 
Paintings,” was communicated by Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., 
being an annotated translation of the Ramirez MS, 
