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the Academy to take to London for a short period, for further 

 investigation and comparison by Professor Owen, the fol- 

 lowing fossil specimens from the Brunswick canal, Georgia, 

 presented to the Institution by Mr. J. Hamilton Cooper, of 

 Georgia, viz : 



Lower incisor tooth of Hippopotamus ; fragment of same ; 

 fragment, supposed to be that of a Hippopotamus ; tooth ef 

 a horse ; Sus Americanus, Harlan ; supposed tibia of a Bos ; 

 humerus of do. 



Meeting for Business, January 27, 1846. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



The Society having received several reports, and authorized 

 the Geological Committee to loan Mr. Lyell the fossil speci- 

 mens referred to in his letter, read at last meeting, proceeded 

 to an election for Standing Committees for the present year, 

 with the following result : 



COMMITTEES FOR 1846. 



Geological and Mineralogical. 



J. Price Wetherill, Wm. S. Vaux, 



S. G. Morton, Walter R. Johnson, 



T. A. Conrad, Samuel Ashmead, 



Theodore F. Moss. 



Zoological. 



John S. Phillips, John Cassin, 



Edward Harris, John K. Townsend, 



Wm. S. Zantzinger, Joseph Leidy, 



William Gambel. 



Botanical. 



Robert Bridges, Gavin Watson, 



Wm. S. Zantzinger. Robert Kilvington, 



William Gambel. 



