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London, the Batavian Academy, the Botanical Society of 

 Canada, and the United States Coast Survey. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Acade- 

 mies at Vienna, Batavia, Lisbon, and Philadelphia ; the So- 

 cieties at Konigsberg, Bath, Kingston, and Boston ; the 

 Essex Institute ; the Royal London and Dublin Societies ; 

 the Observatory at San Fernando ; the Ecole des Mines ; 

 the Society of Arts, and the London Astronomical, Geogra- 

 phical, Geological, and Asiatic Societies ; the American 

 Antiquarian Society, and American Journal of Science ; the 

 Hartford Retreat ; the Medical News, and Franklin Listitute ; 

 College of Physicians, and Dr. Dorr, of Philadelphia ; the 

 Coast Survey, and Smithsonian Listitution ; Prof. Tafel, of 

 St. Louis ; the Santa Clara College, San Francisco ; the 

 State Library, and Board of Regents, at Albany ; Prof. Vol- 

 picelli, of Rome, and Dr. A. D. Bache. 



The deaths of the following members were announced : 

 Dr. H. G. Bronn, at Heidelberg, July 5, 1862, aged 62 ; 

 Hon. Samuel Breck, at Philadelphia, September 1, 1862, 

 aged 91, announced by Dr. Franklin Bache. On motion of 

 Prof. Cresson, Mr. Joshua Francis Fisher was appointed to 

 prepare an obituai-y notice of the deceased. 



Dr. Coates asked and received permission for the committee 

 to append a note to Dr. Tafel' s paper published in the Pro- 

 ceedings. 



Prof. Cresson described the remarkable features of the 

 rain-storm which flooded the streams in the neighborhood of 

 this city on the morning of the 12th instant. 



The peculiarities noted wei'e the limited area affected and the un- 

 usually large quantity of rain-fall at particular points. 



The quantity by measurement at the Gas Works, in the First 

 Ward of the city, was Sy'^^ inches, at those in the Fifteenth Ward 6 

 inches, at the Gas-holder station, in the Twentieth Ward, 9 inches, 

 and at a private mansion in the Twenty-second Ward 6 inches. 

 These points are located on a triangle, whose sides are respectively 

 about 5, 7, and 8 miles longj the First Ward station being at the 

 southern apex, the Twentieth Ward at the northeasternmost angle, 

 7 miles distant, and the Twenty-second Ward gauge at the north- 



