486 LMay 16, 
Stated Meeting; May 16, 1884. 
Present, 10 members. 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
A. photograph of Prof. rv S. Frieze, of Ann Arbor, Michi- 
gan, was received for the album. 
An acceptance of membership was received from Mr. Samuel 
Dickson, dated 901-Clinton street, Philadelphia, April 20, 
Letters of envoy were received from the Batavian Society of 
Sciences, through the Minister of the Netherlands and the 
United States Department of State; Fondation Tyler; Cen- 
tral Cisatauhe of St. Pete msburg + Musée Guimet, and the 
United States Census Bureau, 
Donations to the Library were received from the Batavian 
Society of Arts and Sciences; the Royal Academy of Bel- 
gium; the Accademia dei Lincei; the Royal Academy of 
Arts and Sciences in Modena; the Geographical Society at 
Paris; the Geographical Society at Bordeaux; the Meteoro- 
logical Council of the Royal Society; Dr. Benjamin Ward 
Richardson, and London Nature; the Toronto Observatory ; 
the newly organized Bostonian Society in the old State House ; 
the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy; Dr. Samuel Abbott 
Green; the American Chemical Society; the Meteorological 
Observatory in New York; the American Journal of Phar- 
macy; the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography ; 
Mr. Richard Vaux, Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr Dr. Persifor 
Frazer; the American Chemical Journal; the American 
Journal of Mathematics; the United States Naval Institute ; 
the United States Fish Commission; and the American Mete- 
orological Journal. 
The death of Dr. Samuel D, Gross, at Philadelphia, May 6, 
