PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. IX. JUNE— DECEMBER, 1862. No. 68. 



Stated Meeting, June 20, 1862. 



Present, nine members. 



Prof. Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A letter accepting membership was received from Dr. En- 

 glemann, dated St. Louis, Mo., May 29, 1862. 



Letters were received from Dr. A. D. Bache and D. Hun- 

 tingdon, respecting the deposit of a portrait of the former in 

 the Hall of the Society. 



A letter respecting the Michaux legacy was received from 

 the President, Dr. Wood, dated Paris, May 12, 1862. 



Dr. Bache read an extract from a letter, also from Dr. 

 Wood, respecting the Tischendorff Manuscript. 



Letters advising the Society of donations to the Library 

 were received from the Royal Prussian Academy, dated 

 Berlin, February 18th, 1862; the Minister of the Interior, 

 dated Harlem, February 15th, 1862 ; the Royal Academy of 

 San Fernando, at Madrid ; and the Royal Academy at Lis- 

 bon, per the United States Legation, dated April 19th, 1862. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Physico- 

 Economical Society at Konigsberg ; the Academies at Berlin, 

 Paris, Madrid, and Philadelphia ; the Natural History So- 

 cieties at Bonn and Boston ; the Essex, Franklin, and Wil- 



