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attributed, but chiefly to the aid derived from its early friend and patron 

 the late Wm. Maclure. 



For conducting it through many difficulties during the early part of this 

 period ; for furnishing the principal portion of the means for erecting the 

 edifice in which we are now met; and for the abundant evidences of his 

 generosity in every direction around us in this Hall, do we owe him our 

 grateful acknowledgements. A distinguished member of this Society, 

 who is himself one of its warmest and most active friends, and who has 

 contributed in no small degree to its advancement, has already done ample 

 justice to the memory of Mr. Maclure for these acts.* But there still re- 

 mains with us the obligation, which is of no light character, to use every 

 suitable endeavor to place this Institution in that elevated position which, 

 in making it the special object of such munificence, it was the design of 

 Mr. Maclure it should hold. 



All which is respectfully submitted, by 



Wm. S. Zantzinger, 



Recording Secretary. 



Hall of the Academy, January, 1843. 



An alteration of Article VII, Chapter 3, of the By-Laws, 

 proposed at a former meeting, was then unanimously adopted. 

 The By-Law, as amended, now requires of ; ' Correspondents 

 residing in the United States/' elected after this date, "a 

 Diploma fee of five dollars." 



The Report of the Auditors on the Treasurer's account 

 for 1842, was then read and accepted ; and the Society, after 

 having transacted some other business, proceeded to an elec- 

 tion for Standing Committees for the year 1843. 



The following result was announced by the Tellers: 



COMMITTEES FOR 1843. 

 GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL. 



J. Price Wetherill, William S. Vaux, 



Henry D. Rogers, Walter R. Johnson, 



Joseph A. Clay, T. A. Conrad, 



Willard M. Rice. 



*" Memoir of William Maclure, Esq.," and "Notice of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia," by Samuel George Morton, M. D. 



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