(January. 



Curatoi'S. 

 Franklin Peale, 

 Elias Durancl, 

 Joseph Carson, M.D. 



Treasurer. 

 Charles B. Trego, 



Letters acknowledging the receipt of publications, were 

 received from the R. Saxon Society, dated Leipsig, August 

 1, the Royal Society, dated London, July 1, and the Lon- 

 don Linnean Society, dated July 14th, 1861. 



Letters announcing donations to the Society were read 

 from the Imperial Society of Naturalists, dated Moscow, 

 June 1-13, the Lnperial Academy at Vienna, dated June 25, 

 the R. Saxon Society at Leipsig, dated July 9, and 30, the 

 Society at Gorlitz, dated July 30, the Society at Gcittingen, 

 dated July 19, and the Society at Marburg, dated August 14, 

 1861, desiring an exchange of publications. The Marburg 

 Society was ordered to be placed on the list of correspon- 

 dents, to receive the Proceedings. 



A letter was read from the Directors of the U. S. Naval 

 Observatory at Washington, which Institution was ordered 

 to be placed on the list of correspondents, to receive as full a 

 series of the Transactions as can be made up. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Aca- 

 demies and Societies at St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vienna, 

 Leipsig, Gorlitz, Marburg, Gcittingen, Haarlem, and Dijon ; 

 the School of Mines at Paris ; the Royal and Linnean Socie- 

 ties of London ; Prof. Secchi, of Rome ; the Director of the 

 U. S. Observatory at Washington ; the Director of the U. 

 S. Mint at Philadelphia; C. M. Wheatley, of Phoenixville ; 

 Charles Ellet, Jr., and Joseph Lesley, of Philadelphia. 



Mr, Peale called the attention of the Society to the resume 

 of recent Antiquarian Science of Prof. Morlot, of Geneva, 

 published by the Smithsonian Institution ; and exhibited a 

 specimen, from his own cabinet, of a saw-like stone, resem- 



