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Dr. Morton offered the following, which was adopted: 

 Resolved, That the Librarian and each member of the. Li- 

 brary Committee be furnished with a stamp containing the 

 corporate title, &c, of the Society, impressions of which to 

 be placed on the title page of each book in the Library. 



Also resolved, That the subject be referred to the Library 

 Committee, with power to act. 



Stated Meeting, February 11th, 1845. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Seventeen specimens of Minerals, chiefly from the vicinity 

 of Clermont, France. Presented by Mr. Joseph Clark, of 

 St. Louis, Mo. 



Specimens of Copper Ores, and of Native Copper, from Erie, 

 Erie county, Pa., and a remarkable fossil, seemingly non- 

 descript, from the same locality. From Dr. Wm. Johns, 

 late of Erie, through Dr. Geo. W. Norris. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Discourse before the Society of the Sons of New England 

 of the City and County of Philadelphia, on the history of 

 the early settlement of their country ; being their first an- 

 niversary. Delivered Dec. 21, 1S44, by their President, 

 Samuel Breck. From the author. 



A complete series of Plans of the Potomac Aqueduct ; with 

 an 8vo. vol. explanatory of the same. From Dr. Francis 

 G. Murphy, of Alexandria, D. C, through Dr. Colin Arrott, 

 of Philadelphia. 



Professor Johnson read some remarks additional to his 

 paper on the methods of determining the calorific powers of 



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