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450 [April 5, 
entered into the tenancy of the building. It recites the status 
between the City and the Society, which has lasted until now, 
Stated Meeting, April 5, 1884. 
Present, 10 members. 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Peabody 
Institute, Baltimore (110, 111, 118), the U.S. Surgeon Gen- 
eral’s office (114), and the Society at Winnipeg (114). 
A letter of envoy was received from Dr. A. C. Fryer, dated 
Elmhurst, Wilmilon, Cheshire, England, March 10. 
A circular letter from the Accademia dei Lincei, announced 
the death of its President, Sig. Quintino Sella. 
Donations for the Library were received from the Acade- 
mies, Sovieties and Observatories, at St. Petersburg, Moscow, 
Vienna, Berlin, Halle, Marburg, Turin, Bordeaux, Liverpool 
and Winnipeg; from the Swedish Statistical Bureau; from 
the Ethnological and Geographical Societies; the Museum 
of Natural History and Revue Politique, Paris; from the 
Royal Institution, Astronomical, Geographical, Asiatic and 
Geological Societies, A.C. Fryer and Nature; James Free- 
man Olarke, of Boston; James Hall, of Albany; the Rhode 
Island Historical Society; American Journal of Science; the 
New Jersey Geological Survey; the American Journal of the 
Medical Sciences; Academy of Natural Sciences; Franklin 
Institute; Dr. H. C. Chapman; Prof. Wm. Dennis Marks; H. 
Phillips, Jr.; the Johns Hopkins University ; U.S. Fish Com- 
mission; Washington Philosophical Society; and the Illinois 
State Museum of Natural History. 
Dr. John Curwen, of Warren, Pennsylvania, accepted the 
appointment to prepare an obituary notice of the late Dr. 
Kirkbride, 
Mr. Lesley read Mr. J, F. Carll’s correction of a wrong hori- 
