The papers consist of minutes of the various subcommittees, the financial records and several hundred letters. Edward J. Nolan was the secretary, so probably left these papers in the vault of the Academy for safe keeping.

Signers of letters. [All dated 1884 unless otherwise stated.]

Abbot, G. E.; Alexander, John J.; Allen, Alfred H.; Allen, Lane & Scott; Anderson, Geo. C.; Andrews, Thomas A,; Armstrong, L. H.; Arthur, J. C. (2); Ashburner, Charles A. (9) ;

Baer, D. C.; Bahbergen, H. G.; Bailey, E. H. S.; Baird, Spencer F.; Baker, J. P.; Balch, Edwin S.; Balch, Elise Willing; Ball, John; Ball, Robert S.; Ballard, Harlan H.; Bardeen, F. L.; Barker, George F. (5); Barker, Wharton; Barnes, C. R.; Bartholow, Roberts; Bassett, D. A.; Bement, Wm. B.; Bennet, M. A.; Benson, Edwin N. (2); Bessey, C. E.; Biddle, Alexander (2); Binney, T. G.; Birkinbine, John; Blish, W. Go (2); Boardman, G. D.; Boardman, (Mrs.) Wm. D.; Borre, A. de (2); Bottomley, James ( 2); Bowles, George John; Bowles, Margaretta; Bowman, W.; Boyd, George W. (5); Brashear, John; Breidenbaugh, E. S.; Brooks, James C.; Brydon, R. F.; Butler, A. W.;

Cammack, I. H.; Case, Elizabeth B.; Casterline, Ralph D.; Chase, PoE.; Chickering, J. W., Jr.; Christy, Thomas; Clark, C. H.; Clarke, Thomas C.; Close, M. H.; Coates, Edward H.; Coburn, C. M.; Collin, Alonzo; Colman, Henry; Cope, Edward D. (3) ; Copes, J. S.; Carson, Hampton L.; Corson, Robert R.; Cox, E. T.; Crenshaw, Nathaniel B.; Cross, Charles R.; Crozer, George K.;

Dabney, Charles W. (2); Dall, Caroline H.; Dallas, George M.; Dana, James D.; Danforth, Edward; Darralque, E.; Daubree, A.; Davis, William Morris; Dawson, J. W. (5); Deal, Lemuel J.; DeForest, H. S.; De Hass, W.; Dickinson, John; Dickson, Samuel; Dinwiddie, Robert; Doernig, Oscar; Dorsey, J. Owen; Drexel & Co.; Dyer, C.; Eaton, D. Go; Eaton, John; Emerton, J. H.; Etting, Frank M.;

Fairchild, H. L.; Farnum, J. Edward; Fernie, J.; Fisher, Ellen S.; Foote, A. E.; Forbes, George; Foster, M.; Fraley, F.; Frazer, Persifor (20); Fritts, Charles E.; Gariel, C. M.; Garrett, Martha H. (2); Gentry, Alan F.; Gilbert, Joseph I. (2) ; Gilman, B. C.; Gordan, Joseph C.; Graff, Fred; Gravis, A.; Greenleaf, J. T.; Gregory, H. Do; Groff, Robert H.; Gross, S. D. (2);

Hacker, William (2) ;Hancock, Clinton G. (2); Harding, M. P.; Hare, J. I. C.; Harrington, M. W.; Harris, J. C.; Harrison, A. W.; Harrison, Thomas (2); Hartranft, Rufus C. (7)1884-85; Hasbrouck, Isaac E.; Haughton, Samuel; Hays, D. A.; Herbst, H. H.; Hering, Rudolph (4) ;Hitchcock, Romyn; Hostetter, A. F.; Housten, Edwin J.; Hoy, P. R.; Hubbard, G. W.; Huey, S. B.; Hughes, Theodore H.; Huidekopers, H. S. (9); Hunt, J. Sterry (3); Hyatt, Alpheus; Ingham, William A.; Irving, Roland D. (2) ;

Jackson, Q. Dawson; Jacques, Victor; James, E. J.; Jamison, H. A.; Jenks, Elisha T.; Jewell, Theodore F.; Julien, Alexis A,; Justice, William W.; Kanaman, C. E.; Kato, H.; Kellicott, D. S.; Kendall, E. 0.; Kieran, William; Kimball, Arthur L.; King, William; Knight, Charles; Knight, E. C.; Krumbharr, George Do;

Lamborn, Robert H. (2) ; Langley, John W. (2) ;Larkin, Edgar L.; Lathrup, James C.; Lea, Frances; Lea, Henry C.; Lea, Isaac; Lewis, Enoch (2); Lewis, H. Carvill (3); Lex, William Henry; Libbey, Joseph; Lippincott, Alice (13); Lovewell, J. T.; Lyman, Benjamin Smith; Lyman, Theodore;

MacAlister, Mr.; McCormick, Calvin; McFadden, L. H.; McGee, Charles K.; McGlade, Charles; McInnis, Louis L.; Macintosh, Dr.; McKean, Thomas; McMurtrie, R. C.; McNeill, Malcom; Mabery, C. F.; Magill, E. H.; Man, James Do; Manning, S. M.; Manning, Warren H.; Martin, D. S.; Mead, Charles K.; Meehan, Thomas (3); Merriam, C. Hart; Merrick, J. Vaughan; Mills, James; Morley, Edward W.; Moss, Richard J.; Murphy, Howard (3); Nelson, A. B.; Nichols, L.; Noeckel, H. Allison; Norris, Isaac; Norton, Charles L.; Nolan, Edward J. (6);

Osborn, Herbert; Patterson, William H.; Peace, G. H.; Peebles, W. E.; Pennock, Edward; Pepper, William (8) 1883-84; Percy, Carla H. C.; Perrine, Fred A. C.; Peterson, P.; Pettee, W. H.; Platt, Franklin; Plimpton, Richard T.; Price, Eli K. (2) 1883-84; Price, J. Sergeant (2); Prime, Frederick, Jr.; Putnam, F. W. (20); Putnam, Mary S. D.; Queen, James W. (2); Rains, George W.; Rand, Theodore D. (2) ; Ranke, J.; Raymond, R. W.; Rideal, Samuel; Roberts, Clarence V.; Robinson, Joseph; Rockwood, C. G.; Rogers, H. Raymond; Rogers, R. E.;

Sadtler, Samuel P.; Sanford, C. E.; Sanford, W. L.; Sartain, Samuel; Schram, Nichols H.; Sclater, P. L.; Scott, Robert H.; Sellers, Coleman (2); Shallcross, John; Sharples, S. P.; Short, Sidney H.; Sims, John C., Jr. (12); Smith, Aubrey H.; Smith, Eugene A.; Smith, John B.; Smith, Q. Cincinnatus; Smith, William B.; Snowden, A. Loudon; Snyder, M. B. (2); Spencer, J. W.;

Steiner, Lewis H. (2); Stephens, W. H.; Stille, C. J.; Strawbridge, J. C.; Struve, Z. (2); Sturtevant, E.; Summers, James; Tatham, W.; Taylor, Andrew; Thomas, Benjamin F.; Thompson, George R.; Thomson, Frank (5); Thornton, William M.; Thurston, R. H.; Townsend, H. C.; Townsend, E. Y.; Townsend, P. Vaughan; Trembley, J. B.; Trowbridge, John (2); Tuttle, Albert H.; Tyson, James; Vallot, J.; Vaux, Sandys W.;

Wadsworth, M. E. (2); Wahl, William H. (3) ;Waldo, Leonard; Waller, E.; Walmsley, W. H.; Wanamaker, John (14); Waterhouse, J. (2); Watson, C. A. (7) ;Webb, J. Burkitt (3) ; Welsh, John; Whelen, Edward S. (2); Whit- ing, Lillian; Williams, Francis H. (15); Williams, Mary Beatrice H.; Wilson, Joseph M. (31);Winchell, N. H. (2); Wood, Ida (4); Wood, J. R. (3); Wormley, Theodore G.; Wright, Edward Perceval; Wright, Edith; Wright, James A.; Wurtele, Louis C.; Young, A. H.; Young, C. A.; Zent-mayer, Joseph.