705 
1884.] 
4. That an appropriation of two hundred and seventy-five dollars ($275) 
be made for heliotype views of the Society’s Hall, within and without, to 
illustrate the forthcoming Volume I, Part i, Proceedings of the Society 
from 1744 to 1837. 
5. That a circular letter be sent to members, urging them to take meas- 
ures for the preservation of the monuments of antiquity in their several 
localities. 
6. That it is not expedient for the Society to take any part in the pro- 
posed American Exhibition in London in 1886. 
The alterations made in the garrets of the Hall for purposes 
of storing and arranging the Society’s stock of publications, 
were reported and approved, and the meeting was adjourned, 
Stated Meeting, December 5, 1884. 
Present, 13 members. 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
Letters accepting membership were received from Judge 
Jas. R. Ludlow, Prof. G. vom Rath, Dr. A. 8. Gatschet, and 
Rey. Dr. H. OC, Trumbull. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Societas 
Flora et Faun Fennica, at Helsingfors (107, 108, 118), asking 
for back numbers; from the London Royal Society (XVI, 1; 
112, 118, 114); from the Verein fiir Vaterliindische Natur- 
kunde at Stuttgart (XVI, i; 112-114); and from De Lau & 
Co., London (see MS. Minutes). 
A letter proposing exchange of duplicates was received from 
the Mercantile Library. 
Letters of envoy were received from the Meteorological 
Office of the Royal Society, London, and the Society at Hel- 
singfors, 
Donations to the Library were received from the Royal 
Academies at Berlin, Turin, Modena, London and Edinburgh ; 
the Observatories at Adelaide, Oxford and Brussels; the Geologi- 
