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1884.) 701 
Donations to the Library were reported from the Royal 
Academy of Belgium; the Annales des Mines; the Revue 
Politique; the Meteorological Council of the Royal Society, and 
London Nature; the Cambridge Philological Society; the 
Natural History Society at Montreal; the Boston Society of 
Natural History ; the American Philological Association at 
Cambridge; the American Journal of Science; the American 
Chemical Journal; the Franklin Institute ; Pennsylvania His- 
torical Society; Prof. J. P. Lesley; Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr. ; 
Mr. A. E. Foote; the Wyoming Historical and Geographical 
Society ; the Commissioners of Education; the Secretary of the 
Navy; the United States Fish Commission; the United States 
National Museum; the United States Naval Observatory; the 
Smithsonian Institution; the American Journal of Mathe- 
matics; Major Jed. Hotchkiss, of Staunton, Va.; the editor of 
the Western Magazine, Cleveland; the Colorado Scientific 
Society; ‘the Astronomical Observatory of Mexico, and the 
Imperial Observatory of Rio de Janeiro. 
Dr. Rushenberger accepted his appointment to prepare an 
obituary notice of Dr. R. EK. Rogers. 
Mr. Vaux accepted his appointment to prepare a notice of 
Mr. Henry M. Phillips. 
The death of Mr. John Biddle, of Philadelphia, October 19, 
aged 70 years, was announced, 
The death’of Mr. ©. E. Rawlins, of Liverpool, aged 71 years, 
was announced, 
Dr. Syle exhibited copies of the Shanghai Chinese Illustrated 
News, picturing the defeat of the French troops by the Chinese 
in the late battles; and described the peculiarities of the struc- 
ture of the Chinese language. 
Prof. Cope presented “An Analysis of the bark of the Mou- 
quieira splendens,” by Miss Helen C. D, Abbott. 
Prof. KE. D. Cope mentioned some of the results of his studies 
on the Batrachian and Reptilian fauna of Mexico and Central 
America, which had been prosecuted by the use of material 
mainly placed at his disposal by the Smithsonian Institution. 
