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ter, filled with soft shale, but having a pith of beautiful bright 

 coal, 1 inches in diameter, running up the middle: the bark is 

 fluted ; the roots, long fibres, something like the leaves or rootlets 

 of Stigmaria." 



From Wrn. D. Breckenridge, Esq., dated Washington, 

 Dec. 29, 1846, returning, with acknowledgments, a collection 

 of ferns from the Berlin gardens, which had been loaned him 

 by permission of the Society for examination and comparison. 



From the Trustees of the Western University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, dated Dec. 9, 1846, referring to the loss by fire lately 

 sustained by that Institution of its entire Museum and Li- 

 brary, and asking for donations towards a renewal of the 

 same, particularly the latter. Referred to the Library Com- 

 mittee. 



Meeting for Business, January 26, 1847. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



The Report of the Corresponding Secretary was read and 

 adopted. 



The following resolution was adopted : 



Resolved, That the proposal of Mr. Henry Seybert to de- 

 posit his valuable chemical apparatus in the Academy, to 

 become ultimately the property of the Institution unless 

 withdrawn by himself during his life time and subject to its 

 Rules and By-Laws on this head, be accepted. 



The Society then proceeded to elect the usual Standing 

 Committees for the year. The following result was reported by 

 the Tellers : 



Committees for 184". 

 Geological and Mineralogical. 

 J. Price Wetherill, W. R. Johnson, 



S. G. Morton, Samuel Ashmead, 



Win. S. Vaux, Theodore F. Moss, 



Lewis T. Germain. 



