stancy, two centuries ago, of those conditions which produce the regular weekly storms of the present day. Pending nominations Nos. 388, 389, 390, were read, and the candidates balloted for. The Board of Secretaries, to which was referred the subject of printing the list of members, reported progress; and on motion of Dr. Bache, was continued in committee, with directions to report at the next meeting. M. Matile's communication was, on motion of Mr. Fraley, referred to the Librarian to take order. Dr. Hays and Mr. Carey offered their resignations as members of the Publication Committee, which were accepted; and Mr. T. P. James and Dr. Edw. Hartshorne were chosen to fill the vacancies: Dr. Bridges remaining chairman of the commitee. The ballot box was now, on motion of Dr. Hays, declared closed, and Judge WALTER H. LowRIE, of Pittsburg, Mr. Wm. S. VAUX, of Philadelphia, and Capt. Wm. R. PALMER, of the U. S. Coast Survey, were declared duly elected members, and the Society was adjourned. Stated Meeting, May 6, 1859. Present, seventeen members. Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. Letters were read, acknowledging receipt of notice of their election, from Judge W. H. Lowrie, dated Pittsburg, April 20, 1859; Wm. S. Vaux, Esq. dated Philada. April 30, 1859; and Capt. Wm. R. Palmer, dated Washington, April 19, 1859. A letter was read from the Librarian of the Royal Library, dated at the Hague, Dec. 14, 1858, acknowledging the receipt of Part I, Vol. XI. of the Transactions. The following donations for the Library were announced: Trans. Mass. Agri. Soc. N. Ser. I. Boston, 1858.-From the Soc. Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1855-1858. Boston.-From the Society. VOL. VII.-C Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. Vol. VII. 1, 2.-From the Society. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philada. 1859, 7, 8.--From the Academy. Cat. officers and students Mich. Univers. 1859.-From the Univers. Synopsis of the Ingham Univ. Leroy, N. Y. 1858.-From the Univ. Phila. Fem. Med. Col. 8th An. Announcement.-From the College. Valedictory Address, by Anne Preston, M.D. 1859.-From the Col. Introductory Lecture by E. H. Cleveland, M.D.-From the College. Almanaque náutico para 1860, San Fernando.-From the Observ. Researches into the Phen. of Respiration, by E. Smith. Lond. 1859. Astronom. Journal No. 122. Cambridge.-From Dr. B. A. Gould. Address to Brit. Assoc. by R. Owen, M.D. 28th An. Assembly.. Traité l'Amaurose, par Ch. Deval. Paris, 1851 (450 pages). And Abhandlung über die Amaurose, übertragen von Dr. Jacob Herzfel der. Leipsig, 1853. (220 pp.) 8vo.-From Dr. Roehrig. Geology of Pennsylvania. Vol. II.-From the Sec. of Commonw. Preliminary chart of New York bay and harbour, signed W. R. Palmer, 1859.-From Coast Survey. On motion of Dr. Dunglison, the Secretary was directed to give notice to members appointed to prepare obituary notices prior to the present year, that it is desirable that the duty. should be attended to. New nomination, No. 391, was read. The Secretaries made a report in relation to the printing of the list of members of the Society, which was adopted: -that' the most useful form for printing the list would be as it exists. in the MSS. list belonging to the Society, with the addition of an alphabetical index, and of the size and form of the Proceedings. The special committee appointed to consider and report upon the condition of the Society, and the means of increasing its usefulness, presented their report, and recommended certain resolutions to be passed, which, together with the proposed amendments of the laws of the Society, were postponed for consideration and discussion at the next stated meeting, and ordered to be printed for the use of the members. The following named members were appointed a committee to co-operate with Dr. I. I. Hays, in further Arctic exploration-Mr. W. P. Foulke, Dr. R. E. Rogers, Mr. Isaac Lea, On motion of Mr. Fraley, and owing to the absence, through sickness, of the chairman of the committee on the condition of the Society, the discussion of the alterations in the Laws and Regulations, proposed by the committee, was again postponed to the next meeting. The resolutions of Council, relating to the Magellanic premium, implying an alteration of the by-laws, they were laid upon the table for consideration at the next meeting; and, on motion of Mr. Fraley, were ordered to be printed for the use of the members. Stated Meeting, June 17, 1859. Present, thirteen members. Judge SHARSWOOD, Vice-President, in the Chair. Letters were received, acknowledging the receipt of Nos. 57, 58 of the Proceedings, from the Society of Antiquaries, dated London, May 20, 1859; and announcing a donation for the Library, from the Royal Observatory, dated Greenwich, May 12, 1859. The following donations for the Library were announced: Astronomical Jour. No. 124, 125. Cambridge.-From Dr. Gould. Journ. Soc. Arts, Man. and Com. No. 324-331. London.—From the Society. Contrib. to Palæontol. New York, by J. Hall. (16 pp.) 1855-58. From the Author, Report, Geol. Survey, Iowa. I. II. Hall & Whitney.-From J. Hall. Reports of Explorations . . . Pacific Ocean. X. Senate Document. From U. S. Government. Med. News and Library. No. 198. Philada. June, 1859.—From London. No. 6. Blanchard & Lea. XLV.-From the Society. From I. School of M. Medical Heroism, an Address by J. Bell, M.D. Phila. 1859.-From the Author. Report of Committee on the Internal Hygiene of Cities, appointed by the Quarantine Convention at Baltimore, April, 1858.-From Dr. Bell. The death of Charles Robert Leslie, the artist, elected at member of this Society, April 21, 1836, was announced by Dr. Le Conte. He died at London, May 5, 1859, aged 65 years. Mr. Justice described a superior microscope stand made by Mr. Zentmeyer, of Philadelphia, for and under the direction of Dr. Hunt, of Philadelphia, and embracing all the important late improvements. Dr. Le Conte added his testimony to the admirable skill of the mechanician, and supported it by refering to the stand lately made by him for Dr. Goddard, and' to the stand now making for the Academy of Natural Science, which promises to be one of the best extant. Pending nomination, No. 391, was read. Deferred business being taken up, and the reading of the resolutions appended to the report of the committee on the condition of the Society being called for, the chair decided that the present meeting not being competent to act upon the reso lutions, for want of the number required to be present by the Charter, was, therefore, not competent to discuss them by entertaining motions. On motion of Prof. Cresson, certain amendments to the bylaws, offered by Mr. Fraley as a substitute for, was ordered to be printed with the amendments offered by the Officers and Council, and by the committee on the condition of the Society. On motion of Mr. Foulke, the consideration of the amendments was postponed until the first stated meeting in October. On motion of Prof. Cresson, the last motion was ordered to be attached to the printed amendments. Dr. Coates was permitted, nunc pro tunc, to read a retrospective notice of John Reynell, one of the original members of the Society, with a request that it be not printed, at present, in the proceedings. On motion of Dr. F. Bache, it was, therefore, ordered to be placed among the notices of deceased members; and the Society was adjourned. Dr. FRANKLIN BACHE, in the Chair. Letters were read, acknowledging the receipt of Nos. 57, 58 of the Proceedings, from the Natural Hist. Society, Northumberland, dated Newcastle, May 5, 1859; the Batavian Society, dated Rotterdam, March 7, 1859; the R. Saxon Society, dated Leipsig, Feb. 14, 1859;-and a letter acknowledging the receipt of Transactions, Vol. II. III. IX. 3, from the Franklin Institute, dated Philadelphia, June 16, 1859. Letters were read, announcing the transmission of donations for the Library, from the Upper Hessia Society, dated Giessen, March 30, 1859; the Central Phys. Observatory, dated St. Petersburg, Dec. 29, 1859; the Russian Corps of Engineers, dated St. Petersburg, March 1-13, 1859; Elia Lombardini, dated Milan, April 13, 1858, and C. F. Loosey, Austrian Consul at New York, dated July 2, 1859. A letter was read from Isaac Hazlehurst, Esq., dated Phila. June 22, 1859, resigning his membership in this Society. The following donations for the Library were announced: Proc. Boston N. H. S. VII. 3, 4. Index, &c.-From the Society. Concord Asylum for Insane. the Inst. Report, June, 1859.-From the Trus. Astrm. Jour. No. 121. Albany. Index to V.-From Dr. Gould. |