12 [March. 



publicly and notoriously engaged in acts of treason against 

 the United States, and to inquire into the expediency of 

 striking their names from the list of its members ; which after 

 debate was postponed for the present. 

 And the Society was adjourned. 



Stated fleeting, 3Iarch 21, 1862. 



Present, twenty-seven members. 



Judge Sharswood, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read from the Central Physical Observatory, 

 of Russia, acknowledging and transmitting publications, dated 

 St. Petersburg, June and July, 1861 ; from the Royal Bava- 

 rian Academy, dated Munich, Dec. 2, 1861, accompanying a 

 donation to the Library ; and from Mr. J. B. Serjeant, Li- 

 brarian of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 

 dated March 14, offering for sale certain copies of parts of 

 the Transactions of this Society ; which was referred to the 

 Committee on the Library. 



Donations to the Library were presented from the Central 

 Observatory of Russia ; the Academy at Munich ; the Bos- 

 ton N. H. Society ; the Franklin Listitute ; the Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society, London ; the Dublin University Association ; 

 the State Library at Harrisburg ; the Philadelphia Gas 

 Works; Silliman's Journal; G. P. Putnam, of New York; 

 Charles Nagy, of Hungary; and J. S. Newberry, of "Wash- 

 ington. 



Dr. Coatcs made a verbal communication respecting the 

 Catalogue raisonn^e of the Medical Library of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Hospital, at Philadelphia. 



Pending nominations Nos. 446 to 455 were read. 



Mr. Tilghman offered the folloAving resolution, in lieu of 

 the one offered by him at the last meeting : " Whereas, Mat- 

 thew F. Maury and W. F. Lynch have committed public and 

 notorious acts of treason against the United States, it is 



