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343 (Jan. 4, 1884. 
Stated Meeting, January 4, 1884. 
Present, 7 members. 
President, Mr. Fraupy, in the Chair. 
Donations for the Library were received from Captain 
R. C. Temple, Allahabad; MM. August Berger and Fried. 
Pressel, Ulm; Prof. Paul Albrecht, Brussels; the Geological 
Cominehs lal Society, Bordeaux; the Geographical Society and 
M. Luciano Cordeira, of Lisbon; the Revista Euskara; Revue 
Politique; Mr. H. M. Stanley; Mr. W. Marriott; Mr. John 
donnie: London Nature; Meteorological Society ; Royal 
Astronomical Society, Victoria Institute; Kew Observatory ; 
Royal Geological Society of Cornwall; Mr. F. B. Hough, of 
Concord, New Hampshire; the Essex Institute; B. N. H.S 
Science Record; Meteorological Shame ip ak New York , 
Philadelphia Library Company, Franklin Institute, Mr. Henry 
Phillips, Jr., United States Fish Commission and United States 
National Museum. 
The death of Sven Nillson, at Lund, November 30, 1883 
aged 96 years, 8 months, 22 days, was announced. 
The death of General Thomas Leiper Kane, at Philadelphia, 
December 26, 1883, aged 6L years, 11 months, was announced 
by Mr. J. S. Price. 
The death of General Andrew A. Humphreys, at Washing- 
ton, December 27, 1888, aged 78 years, was announced by Mr. 
Fraley, who was, on motion, authorized to select members of 
the Society to prepare notices of General Kane and General 
Humphreys. 
Mr. Lesley offered to the inspection of the members a photo- 
graphic print of one of Mr. George Simpson’s beautiful draw- 
ings of Mr. Mansfield’s cannel co: al shale specimens, on which 
was exhibited a nearly perfect specimen of Dolichopterus 
Mansfieldi 0. i. Hall (see Proceedings American Philosophi- 
cal Society, Volume XVI, page 621 1877), lying across a mass 
of broken ferns and st ems, Papuan s, Neuropteris, Annularia, 
Sigillaria, &. Twenty-five figures of Kurypterids, in whole or 
in part, with enlargements of scales, &c., will be published by 
the Second Geogr :phic: al Survey, with the three plates of simi- 
a forms rom Warren county, ‘drawn and described by Mr. ¢ 
1. Beechet 
