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Stated Meeting, October 21, 1859. 



Present, fifteen members. 

 Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read from the Hist. Soc. of Penna. dated Oct. 

 10: — from the Rhode Island Hist. Soc. dated Oct. 4: — and from 

 the Bost. N. H. Soc. dated Oct. 6, 1859, acknowledging the re- 

 ceipt of the Proceedings. 



The following donations for the Library were announced: — 

 Astronomical Journal, No. 128. — From the Editor. 

 Monthly Not. Royal Astron. Soc. XIX. No. ^.—From R. A. Soc, 

 Proc. Boston Nat. Hist. Soc. VII. 7, 8. — Fro7n the Society. 

 Journal of the Franklin Institute, No. 406. — From the Institute. 

 Proceedings Acad. Nat. Sci. 5-19, 1-2. — From the Academy. 

 African Repository, Oct. 1859. No. 10. — From the Amir. Col. Soc. 

 Cat. Off. and Students, Harvard Univ. 1859-60. — From the Univer, 

 Providence School Committee An. Rep. 1859. — From the Committee, 

 Chart of Canal de Haro, &c. Washington T. — From Major Bache. 

 Tavole . . Vecchia Moneta Tuscana, Fir. 1826. — Prof. Haldeman, 

 Delia Campagna di Roma. By Reumont, 1842. — Prof. Haldeman, 



The Committee, to which was i-eferred the paper of Prof. 

 Haldeman, reported in favour of its being printed in the Trans- 

 actions, which was ordered accordingly, and the Committee 

 was discharged. 



The decease of the distinguished naturalist, Thomas Hors- 

 field,a member of this Society (elected Oct. 16, 1S29), at Lon- 

 don, Sept. 1859, was announced by Dr. Leidy. 



The decease of John Y. Mason, representative of the United 

 States at the Court of the Tuilleries, a member (elected April 

 16, 1847), at Paris, Oct. 3, 1859, was announced by Prof. Trego. 



A communication was presented for the Transactions entitled: 

 Revision of thb BupiiESTiDii<: of the United States, by 

 John L. Le Conte^ M.Z)., and referred to a committee consist- 

 ing of Prof. Haldeman, Dr. Ruschenberger and I)r Leidy. 



Prof. Lesley presented for publication in the Proceedings 

 a paper, entitled, On the Insensible Gradation of Words.* 



Mr. Lesley brought before the notice of the members present, 

 a measured and leveled section of the Geology and Topography 

 * Sec page 129. 



