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Stated Meeting, February 15, 1884. 
Present, 12 members. 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
Messrs. Parrish, Ashhurst and Cohen, new members, were 
introduced to the presiding officer and took their seats. 
Dr. Maisch accepted membership by letter, dated Philadel- 
phia, February 17. 
Letters respecting missing publications were received from 
the Batavian Society at Batavia, the Geological Society of 
France, and the Johns Hopkins University. (See rough min- 
utes.) 
Letters of enquiry respecting publications were read from 
Mr. D. Lyman, of the U.S. Revenue Department, and Prof. 
A. L. Guss, of the U. S. Treasury Department ; and a letter of 
envoy from Col. Jas. Worrall, of Harrisburg. 
The Lee MSS.,2 Vols., having been returned to the Library, 
the Librarian read a letter of explanation from Mr. Justin 
Winsor, dated Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 9. 
Donations for the Library were reported from the Geo- 
logical Survey of Victoria; Revue Politique; Geographical 
Societies of Paris and Bordeaux; Annales des Mines; R. Acad- 
emy of History, Madrid; Revista Euskara; London Nature, 
R. A. Peacock, and B. Ward Richardson; the Glasgow Philo- 
sophical Society ; the Geological Survey of Canada; the Bos- 
ton Natural History Society; Museum of Comparative Zodl- 
ogy; American Antiquarian Society; American Journal of 
Science; Astor Library; Academy of Sciences and Prof. J.S. 
Newberry, of New York; American Journal of Pharmacy, 
and Numismatic and Antiquarian Society; Col. Jas. Worrall, 
of Harrisburg; the U.S. Naval Institute; the U.S. War De- 
partment, and Mr, H. Phillips, Jr. 
The death of Arnold Guyot, at Princeton, N.J., February 8, 
1884, aged seventy-six years and four months, was reported, 
