qo [November. 



Stated Meeting^ November 7, 1862. 



Present, seven members. 



Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



Letters accepting membership were received from P. Vol- 

 picelli, dated Rome, October 4th, 1862 ; J. Lothrop Motley, 

 dated Vienna, October 13th ; Robert Cornelius, dated Phila- 

 delphia, November 4th ; Evan Pugh, dated Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Centre County, Pa., Nov. 4tli, 1862. 



Letters acknowledging receipt of the publications of the 

 Society were received from the American Antiquarian So- 

 ciety ; the New Jersey Historical Society, dated October 3d 

 and November 6th ; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 

 dated October 23d ; the Pennsylvania State Library, dated 

 October 31st, 1862 ; the Royal Academy at Brussels, dated 

 November, 1860. 



Letters regarding donations for the Library w^ere received 

 from J. E. Cohen, M.D., Baltimore, October 23d ; C. F. 

 Loosey, New York, October 22d ; United States Treasury 

 Department, October 18th ; the Zool. Bot. Society, March 

 20th ; and Imperial Academy, August 1st, at Vienna ; and 

 from the Natural History Society at Riga, dated April 10th, 

 1862. 



Donations for the Library were received from the French 

 Minister of Public Works ; the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic 

 Society, at Falmouth ; the Royal Academy and Royal Ob- 

 servatory, at Brussels ; the Imperial Academy, the Royal 

 Geological Institute, and the Zoologico-Botanical Society at 

 Vienna ; the Trustees of the New York State Library ; T. 

 W. Reeve, of New York ; Blanchard & Lea, of Philadelphia ; 

 and Evan Pugh, of Centre County, Pa. 



The death of General 0. McKnight Mitchell, at Hilton 

 Head in South Carolina, October, 1862, aged 52, was an- 

 nounced by the Secretary, and on motion of Dr. Hays, Prof. 

 Kendall was appointed to prepare an obituary notice of the 

 deceased. 



Mr. Lesley described a section of coal -measure rocks made 

 by him during a visit to the neighborhood of Sydney, C. B., 

 and noticed other remarkable features of the British Provinces. 



