484 [May 2, 
Stated Meeting, May 2, 1884. 
Present, 9 members. 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
New members, Mr. Baker, Dr, Garrison, and Prof. James, 
were presented to the presiding officer, and took their seats. 
Acceptances of membership were read from 
Prof. H. J. James, dated Philadelphia, April 22. 
Mr. Wharton Barker, W ynoote, Jenkintown a Apr. 28 
Dr. Joseph F’. Garrison, Camden, N. J., April 2 
Mr. Francis Jordan, Jr., Philadelphia, April 2 25, 
Mr. Jno. R. Baker, P " ‘ladelphia, April 25 
Mr. Rich. L. Ashhurst, Philadelphia, April 25. 
Prof. Henry 8. Frieze, Ann Arbor, Mich., April 28. 
Mr. Francis Wharton declined membership by letter dated 
Philadelphia, April 29, assigning as a reason his inability to 
attend the meetings, 
Change of address, Geo. L. Vose, Prof. of Civ. Hng., in the 
Mass. Inst. of Technology, Boston. 
A circular letter to attend its 25th anniversary on the 11th 
of May, was received from the Offenbacher Verein. 
Acknowledgments were received from the Royal Bavarian 
Academy of Science (two copies of ma i i and of 110-118); 
Holland aetna, of Science (XVI,1; 112, H. H. R. Peters 
(114); and the Smithsonian Taaiittitton (1 1a 
Envoy letters were receivrd from the Belgian Ministry ot 
the Interior and the Musée Guimet. 
A letter was received from Brentano Bros., booksellers, New 
York city, appointed agent for the Bib. Nat. ‘ile Paris, desiring 
the Society’s publications and bill for the same. 
A letter of advisement was received from the Royal Institute 
of Higher Studies at Florence. 
Donations for the Library were reported from the Depart- 
ment of Mines, at Melbourne; Royal Society, New South 
