1863.] 207 



E. A. Washbuvne, D.D., Rector of St. Mark's, Philadel- 

 phia. 



James McClune, Central High School, Philadelphia. 



Calvin Pease, D.D., First Presbyterian .Church, Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



New nomination No. 494 was read. 

 And the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, May 1, 1863. 



Present, tw^enty-six members. 



Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



Letters accepting membership were received from Chester 

 Dewey, dated University of Rochester, April 22d ; William 

 Henry Green, dated Princeton, April 26th, and Charles A. 

 Schott, dated Washington, D. C, April 22d, 1863. 



Letters acknowledging the receipt of publications were re- 

 ceived from Prof. Hyrtl, and the Secretary of the Imperial 

 Academy at Vienna, dated November 1862 ; the Royal 

 Academy at Munich, October, 1862 ; the Batavian Academy 

 at Rotterdam, January 21st, 1863 ; the Bureau des Longi- 

 tudes at Paris, December 5th, 1862 ; the Leeds Philosophical 

 and Literary Society, December 31st, 1862 ; the Library of 

 Congress, April 22d, 1863 ; and the Smithsonian Institution, 

 July 22d and October 20th, 1862. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Royal 

 Astronomical and Chemical Societies in London ; the Geo- 

 logical Society of Dublin ; the Massachusetts Historical So- 

 ciety, Dr. Dewey, of Rochester, Mr. William Vaux, Prof. 

 Cresson, Prof. Lesley and Mr. Leipoldt, of Philadelphia, and 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



The decease of a member of the Society, Dr. William Dar- 

 lington, on the 23d of April, at West Chester, aged eighty- 



