1864.] 411 



The plienomena on which these inferences are based, are ali sus- 

 ceptible of a simple and obvious explanation, and thus, by reasoning 

 alternately a jjriori and a jiosteriori, we elicit from a scheme of 

 seemingly lawless confusion, the beauty of a most marvellous order. 



Pending nominations Nos. 522, 523, 524, 525, were read, 

 and balloted for. 



Mr. Fraley, Chairman of the Finance Committee, moved 

 that the Committee have authority to compromise the claim 

 of the Society on the bond of Charles Wharton, secured by 

 a mortgage on certain coal lands in Northumberland County, 

 for a sum not less than four thousand (4000) dollars, and 

 that, in the event of such compromise and settlement, the 

 officers of the Society be authorized and directed to execute 

 and deliver such instruments of writing as may be necessary 

 to carry the compromise into effect, and affix and attest the 

 seal of the Society thereto. The motion was passed unani- 

 mously. 



On motion of Mr. Fraley, the sum of five hundred (500) 

 dollars was appropriated to the Committee on the Hall for 

 the purpose of meeting expenses incurred in the late repairs 

 of the building, and moreover the sum of one hundred (100) 

 dollars for binding books. 



There being no further business before the Society, the 

 ballot-boxes Avere examined by the presiding officer, and the 

 following persons declared duly elected to membership in the 

 Society : 



Joseph Harrison, Esq., of Philadelphia. 



John Foster Kirk, Esq., of Boston, Mass. 



Prof. George H. Cook, M.D., of New Brunswick, N. J. 



And the Society was adjourned. 



