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initiation fee from $10 to $5; and Article 3d of same Chap- 

 ter, reducing the amount required to constitute a Life Mem- 

 bership from 80 to $50 both of which were adopted. 



NEW BUSINESS. 



Dr. Morton stated that he had deposited in the Academy 

 a large number of valuable letters and papers which had 

 been placed in his hands by General Parker, Administrator 

 to the Estate of the late Zaccheus Collins, embracing the 

 Botanical Correspondence of the latter with Muhlenberg, 

 Baldwin, Elliott, Bigelow, Schweinitz, Nuttall, and other 

 American Naturalists; whereupon a resolution was adopted 

 instructing the Botanical Committee to collate and arrange 

 these manuscripts and have them bound and placed in the 

 Library of the Academy. 



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ELECTION. 



Eobert Kilvington, of Philadelphia county, was elected 

 a Member of the Academy. 



