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wards made the property of the Society by the liberality of 

 Mr, Poinsett. 



The resolution of Mr. Peale was then adopted. 



And the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, April 1, 1864. 



Present, nineteen members. 



Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



A letter of acknowledgment was received from the Liver- 

 pool Literary and Philosophical Society, dated February 29, 

 1864. 



Letters of envoi were received from M. the Minister of 

 Public Instruction, dated Paris, November 21st, M. Hector 

 Bossange, dated Paris, February 25, and the Liverpool Lite- 

 rary and Philosophical Society, dated March 17, 1864. 



Donations for the Library were announced from M. Tro- 

 yon of Lausanne, the London Reader, the Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Societies of Liverpool and of Quebec, Silliman's 

 Journal, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Professor J. C. 

 Cresson, and Dr. Kirkbride of Philadelphia. 



The death of Dr. Franklin Bache, at his residence in 

 Spruce Street, on Saturday evening, the 19th ultimo, aged 71 

 years, was announced by Mr. Fraley, with a feeling tribute 

 to his venerated character and long and varied relations to 

 the Society. On motion of Mr. Fraley, the President, Dr. 

 Wood, was requested to prepare an obituary notice, to be read 

 before the Society. 



Mr. Chase continued his remarks upon heat and afterwards 

 illustrated the polarizing action of muscular energy by a 

 magnetic needle held in the hand, but explained the pheno- 

 menon as due chiefly, if not solely, to a law governing the 

 mechanical propagation of vibrations. 



