306 Dee. 7, 
Stated Meeting, December 7,. 1883. 
Present, 12 members. 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
The resignation of Judge Thayer was received and accepted. 
Letters of acknowledgment were read from the Astor Li- 
brary (XVI, i), the Franklin Institute (XVI, 4), the American 
Statistical Association (118) and the American Ethnological 
Society (113). 
Letters of envoy were received from the Natural History | 
Society at Chemnitz; the Second Geological Survey of Penn- 
sylvania; the Society of Natural Science, at Poughkeepsie ; 
the United States Geological Survey, and Prof. J. J. Steven- 
son, of the University of the City of New York. «ye 
A letter from the S. N. M.S., at Cherbourg, was read, re- 
questing numbers of Proceedings of American Philosophical 
Society to complete a set. 
A letter of inquiry was received from W. F. EB. Gurley, 
dated Danville, Ill., Nov. 80, 1888. 
Donations for the Library were reported from Mr. B.S. Ly- 
man, late Chief Geologist of Japan; the German Geological So- 
| ciety; the Anthropological Societies at Vienna and Paris; the 
q Natural History Society at Chemnitz; the Royal Academy 
at Brussels, and Prof. Paul Albrecht; the Musée Guimet; the 
Revista Euskara and Revue Politique; the Commercial Geo- 
graphical Society at Bordeaux; M. Claudio Jannet, ot Paris; 
the Annales des Mines; the Royal Astronomical Society and 
London Nature ; the editor of Cosmos; the Canadian Institute ; 
Littlefield, bookseller, of Boston; the Bunker Hill Monument 
Association (Hon. R. C. Winthrop); the Boston Natural His- 
tory Society; Cambridge Museum of Comparative ZLodslogy ; 
Harvard University ; Essex Institute; American Journal of 
Science, New Haven; Meteorological Observatory, New Y ork; 
Vassar Brothers’ Institute; Franklin Institute; Dr. D. G. Brin- 
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