7-i [August, 



Resolved, That the sincere thanks of this Society be tendered to 

 Mr. John Lambert, for his able and assiduous attention to the duties of 

 the Recording Secretaryship during his incumbency of that office. 



A letter was read from the Secretary of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, addressed to Dr. Charles HufFnagle, dated January 1-ith, 1848, 

 accompanying the donation by that Society to the Academy, of 14 

 volumes of the Asiatic Researches, and 9 volumes of their Journal. 



Dr. Morton read to the Society, the following extracts from a 

 printed copy of the will of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Stott, of Phila- 

 delphia : 



" To the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, I bequeath 

 my Plantce Asiaticee Rariores, in three large folio volumes bound in 

 Russia leather, by Dr. Wallich, Superintendant of the Botanical Gar- 

 den at Calcutta." 



" By Dr. Samuel George Morton, I give and bequeath to the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, two thousand dollars, in 

 trust, to invest and keep the same in good security, or in good estate, 

 and to apply the annual income to meet the expenses of the printing 

 and publishing such papers communicated to the Academy, as they 

 shall direct." 



The Academy then proceeded to an election for Corresponding and 

 Recording Secretaries, with the following result : — 



Correspondins; Secretary — John Cassin. 



Recording Secretary — William Gambel, M. D. 



ELECTION OF CORRESPONDENTS. 



Bennett Dowler, M. D., of New Orleans. 



A. A. Henderson, M. D., U. S. N. 



Robert M. S. Jackson, M. D., Indiana county, Pennsylvania. 



August \st, 1848. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



A letter was read from the Secretary of the Royal Society of 

 Copenhagen, dated April 20th, 1847, acknowledging the receipt of 

 recent numbers of the Proceedings. 



Also a letter from the Secretary of the American Philosophical 

 Society, to the same effect. 



An extract from a letter from Richard Brown, Esq., addressed to 

 Prof. Johnson, dated Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, July 15th, 1848, in 

 relation to a new fossil plant, (Artesia or Sternbergia) recently ob- 

 tained in his vicinity. 



Dr. Gambel exhibited, and read the description of a new Mexican 

 Quail, which was referred to a committee consisting of Mr. Cassin, 

 Dr. Townsend, and Dr. Bridges. 



Dr. Gambel exhibited and 'made some observations upon several 

 Birds, recently collected in Florida by Dr. Heerman, among them 

 Rosthramus hamatus, Vireo longirostris, and Ardea Pealii, notices of 

 which will be prepared for publication in Ihe Proceedings. 



