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were referred to a committee consisting of Dr. Le Conte, Mr. Lesley and Dr. Caspar Wister.

Pending nomination No. 388, and new nomination No. 389, were read.

The committee to consider the condition of the Society not being prepared to report, was continued, with leave to report when prepared.

On motion of Dr. Le Conte, the application of the heirs of Joseph Horsfield was referred to the Committee on the Library, with power to act, and the Society was adjourned.

Stated Meeting, March 18, 1859.

Present, twenty-four members.

Dr. WOOD, President, in the Chair.

Letters were read from C. C. Rafn, dated Copenhagen, Sept. 3, 1858, expressing the desire of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquarians to address its memoirs and reports to foreign societies; and from the Lyceum of Nat. Hist., dated New York, March 12, 1859, acknowledging the receipt of the proceedings, Vol. VI. No. 59.

The following donations for the Library were announced:

Proceedings... Mass. Hist. S. in respect to the memory of W. H. Prescott, Feb. 1, 1859. Boston. (53 pp.) 8vo.-From the Soc. Report of Hist. and Progress of Am. Coast Survey, to 1858. By the committee of twenty appointed by the A. A. A. S., August, 1857. (88 pp.) 8vo.

Proceedings Am. Antiq. S. Special Meeting, Feb. 10, 1859.-From the Society.

Soc. R. des Antiq. du Nord. List, &c., 1858. (8 pp.) 8vo.-From the Society.

Sur la Construction des Salles dítes des géants, par S. M. le roi Fréd. de Danemark. Copenha. 1857. (19 pp.) 8vo.-From the same.

Cabinet d'Antiq. Amer. a Copenhague, 1858. (60 pp.) 8vo.-From the same.

Proceedings... Boston N. H. So. VI. 26, 27.—From the Society. Account of the Haddonfield Reptile. (Second copy.)—From W. P. Foulke.

Report Penn. Hospital for the Insane, for 1858.-From Dr.

Kirkbride.

Report (31st) Phila. House of Refuge, for 1858.—From Board of M. Report... Penn. Inst. Deaf and Dumb, for 1858.—From Board of M. Franklin Institute Journal. March, 1859.-From the Institute. Medical News and Library. March, 1859. From Blanchard & Lea. African Repository. March, 1859.-From Amer: Col. Society.

The committee to which were referred the communications of Dr. Hayden and Dr. Leidy, reported in favour of their publication in the transactions of the Society, and was discharged.

The decease of Dr. Thomas D. Mütter, was announced by Dr. Franklin Bache;. a member of this Society, he died at Charleston on the 16th instant, aged 60 years.

The decease of Dr. C. F. Beck was announced by Professor Coppée; a member of the Society, he died at Rome on the 13th of February last.

Dr. Pancoast was appointed to prepare an obituary notice of Dr. Mütter.

Dr. Ruschenberger was appointed to prepare an obituary notice of Dr. Beck.

Dr. Le Conte made some observations on the geographical distribution of animals, with especial reference to the genera and species of insects in North America.

Mr. Lesley referred to the last paragraphs in the paper of Dr. Hayden, presented at the last meeting, and illustrated the wide range of American formations, and the probability of new discoveries of Devonian and Silurian rocks between Utah and the Pacific ocean, by describing what is already known respecting certain extensive beds of iron ore, the rational genesis of which is still, to some extent, a problem. He also exhibited specimens of iron ore from the subcarboniferous redshales of XI in Kingston Hollow, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, and referred to other localities where the same ore is known to exist.

Pending nominations No. 388 and 389, and new nomination, No. 390, were read.

On motion of Mr. Powel, that a list of members of the Society from its first organization to the present time, be printed, that subject was made the order of business for the next meeting, and the Society was adjourned.

Stated Meeting, April 1, 1859.

Present, twenty-three members.

Prof. CRESSON, Vice-President, in the Chair.

A letter was read from the Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, dated Cambridge, March 26, 1859, informing the Librarian of the transmission of a copy of its proceedings, with other copies for other parties.

The following donations for the Library were announced:

Proceedings A. N. S. Philadelphia, 1859; 5, 6, 7.—From the Soc.
Astronomical Journal, No. 120.- From Dr. A. B. Gould.
Trans. Batav. Soc. XXVI. 1854-1857. (132 pp.) 4to.-From the
Society.

Journal B. S. for Indian Know. VI., i. iii. iv. v. vi.-From the same. 5th Opgave van Boekwerken p. 107-198. 8vo.-From the same. Proceed. R. Geog. Soc. II., i. ii. 1858, London.-From the Society. Val. Address by H. H. Smith, M.D. Phila. 1859.-—From the G. Class. Address before the Alumni, by H. H. Smith, M.D.-From the Author. 11th An. Rept. Mass. School for Idiots. Cambridge, 1859. From the Trustees.

27th An. Rept. Perkins Inst. and Mass. Asy. for the Blind.-From the Trustees.

Quar. Jour. Chemical Soc. XLIV. Lond. Jan. 1859.-From the Soc. Proceed. A. A. A. S. Baltimore meeting. Cambridge, 1859.-From the Association.

Month. Not. R. Astro. Soc. XIX., 4. Feb. 1859.- From the Soc. History of St. Louis. (pp. 47.) 1854. 8vo.-From Dr. Leidy. Map and Section of the Missouri river, by F. V. Hayden. Philada. 1857. (40 pp.) 8vo.-From the same.

Description of Koch's Hydrachon. New Orleans, 1853. (12 pp.) -From the same.

Amer. Journ. Med. Sci. LXXVI. Philada. April, 1859.-From Blanchard & Lea.

Medical News and Library. XVII. 196, for April, 1859.-From Blanchard & Lea.

Mr. Durand presented for publication in the Transactions, a paper entitled "A Sketch of the Botany of the Basin of Great Salt Lake of Utah;" and read the preface to it. The paper was referred to a committee consisting of Dr. Bridges, Dr. Wood and Dr. Carson.

Mr. Powel exhibited some photographs of the moon, executed by Lubis M. Rutherford, of New York, enlarged from small photographs taken, by means of a powerful telescope, on collodion; also two stereoscopic views, copied from originals, and a fine example of a photograph taken on dry collodion, after the Fothergill process.

Pending nominations Nos. 388, 389 and 390, were read.

The special order of business for the evening being called up, to wit:-the motion of Mr. Powell, that a list of members of the Society, from its first organization to the present time, be printed-it was, on motion of Dr. Bell, adopted; and, on motion of Mr. Fraley, the form and number of copies to be printed were referred to the secretaries, to report thereon at the next meeting.

No. 60, of the Proceedings just published, was laid on the table, and the Society was adjourned.

Stated Meeting, April 15, 1859.

Present, twenty-five members.

Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair.

Letters were read, acknowledging the receipt of No. 60 of the Proceedings, from the trustees of the Boston Atheneum, dated Boston, April 6, 1859; The Corporation of Harvard College, dated Cambridge, April 1, 1859; The Connecticut Historical Society, dated Hartford, March 31, 1859.

A letter was read, announcing a donation for the Library, from the Smithsonian Institution, dated Washington, March 18, 1859.

A letter was read from G. A. Matile, consul of Belgium, dated New York, April 11, 1859, requesting to know if there were missing numbers of the publications of the R. Acad. which he could supply from copies in his possession.

The following donations for the Library were announced:

Proceedings R. Geog. Soc. London. III. 1. 1859.- From the Soc. An. Report, Leeds Phil. and L. S., 38th. 1857-8.-From the Soc.

Proc. West Riding Geol. and P. S., 1857-8. Leeds.—From the Soc. Sensorial Vision, by Sir J. F. W. Herschel. Leeds. (16 pp.) 8vo. --From the same.

Comets by Christ. Kemplay.

...

-From the Author.

Leeds, 1859.

(118 pp.) 8vo.

China and its Trade, by J. Crawford. London, 1858. (24 pp.) 8vo. -From the Author.

African Repository. April, 1859.—From Am. Col. Society.
Pacific Ex. Ex. Vol. IX. Senate Doc. 13, pt. 9. Wash. 1858.-
From U. S. Government.

Same, published as an Executive Document.--From U. S. Gov.
Smithson. Cont. to Knowledge. Vol. X.
Soiling of Cattle, &c., by Jos. Quincy.

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Wash.-From the Inst.
Boston, 1859. (64 pp.)

Scarlet Fever, by C. Morris, M.D. Phil. 1858. (190 pp.) 8vo.From the Author.

Dr. Bridges, chairman of the committee to which the paper of Mr. Durand was referred, reported a recommendation that the paper be published; and on motion of Dr. Bache, it was ordered to be printed, and the committee was discharged.

The decease of Robert Walsh, a member of the Society, at Paris, on the 7th February last, aged 76 years, was announced by Dr. F. Bache.

Mr. Lesley called attention to the notice of two violent storms, in the diary of the Plymouth Colonists, in 1620, as occurring at an interval of fourteen days; and suggested that a search into such early records of the weather of the Atlantic coast, would probably furnish sufficient evidence of the con

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