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Stated Meeting, December 21, 1883. 
Present, 8 members. 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair, 
A letter from Bishop de Schweinitz, dated Bethlehem, Dee. 
12th, enclosing a certified extract from the minutes of the 
‘Board of Directors of the Society of the United Brethren for 
Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen,” was read, and, on 
motion, it was 
Resolwed, That the Curators be authorized and requested to return the 
Zeisberger and Perlaus documents to their proper owners, and take a re- 
ceipt for the same. 
Donations for the Library were received from the Society 
at Riga, the Royal Society of Victoria, Royal Academy 
and Prof, Paul Albrecht of Brussels; Geographical Society of 
Paris and Bordeaux; the Institute of France; Royal Academy 
at Madrid; Meteorological, Zodlogical, and Royal Asiatic Soci- 
eties at London; Cambridge Museum of Comparative ZLoodlogy ; 
American Oriental Society; Prof. Oswald Seidensticker, Prof. 
Edwin J. Houston, and Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr.; Mr. Wm. 
Hand Browne of Baltimore, American Journal of Mathemat- 
ics; United States National Museum; J. L. Smithmeyer; Ohio 
Mechanics’ Institute of Cincinnati; and the American Anti- 
quarian and Oriental Journal. 
Also framed phototypes of the Smithsonian Institution 
Building, and of Henry W. Longfellow, presented by Mr. F. 
Gutekunst of Philadelphia. 
The death of Dr. Thomas 8. Kirkbride, Superintendent of 
the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, in West Philadel- 
phia, on the 17th of December, aged 74, was announced by 
the President, who was requested to appoint a member of the 
Society to prepare an obituary notice of the deceased. 
A communication for the Magellanic Premium was. re- 
ceived through the President from “Time is Money,” consist- 
ing of a description and model of “A Universal Time-piece.”’ 
Referred to the Board of Officers and Council. 
PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. xxI. 114. 2P. PRINTED JANUARY 28, 1884. 
