130 [February. 



Hon. John M. Read, of Philadelphia, 

 Dr. Edward Jarvis, of Dorchester, Mass. 

 And the Society was thereupon adjourned. 



Stated Meeting^ February 6, 1863. 



Present, twenty-one members. 

 Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Pliny E. Chase, a newly-elected member, was intro- 

 duced to the President, and took his seat. 



Letters accepting membership were read from the Hon. 

 John M. Read, of Philadelphia, January 19th ; from Dr. Ed- 

 ward Jarvis, Dorchester, Mass., January 20th; from Mr. A. 

 H. Worthen, Springfield, 111., January 21st ; from Prof. 

 Daniel Wilson, University College, Toronto, C. W., January 

 22d, and from Dr. George Smith, Upper Darby, Delaware 

 County, Pa., January 22d, 1863. 



Letters acknowledging publications were received from the 

 Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, November 28th, 1861 ; from 

 the Society of Antiquaries, London, January 9th, 1862, and 

 from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 

 January 20th, 1863. 



Donations to the Library were received from the Ober- 

 Commando of the Austrian Marine ; the Royal, Royal Astro- 

 nomical, Royal Asiatic, and Chemical Societies, in London ; 

 the Royal Observatory at Greenwich ; Prof. De Morgan and 

 Prof. Daubeny, of Oxford ; the Boston Natural History So- 

 ciety ; Silliman's Journal ; the Franklin Listitute, and Prof. 

 Schaeflfer ; the Superintendents of the Coast Survey and 

 Census Bureau, and Captain Abbot, of the U. S. Top. Engs. 



Prof. Trego announced the death of Col. J. J. Abort, U. 

 S. Top. Engs., January 27th, 1863, in the seventy-fifth year 

 of his age. 



Dr. Bache presented a written communication from Judge 

 Carleton, which embodied the views expressed by him in pre- 

 vious discussions of the subject, as follows ; 



