The minutes of tlie last meeting of the Board and Council 

 were read. 



Pending nomination, No. 3SS was read. 



On motion of Mr. Foulke, the Librarian was instructed to 

 transmit by mail to the members of the Society its proceed- 

 ings, so soon as publislicd, except in cases where requested not 

 to do so by the parties interested. 



On motion of Dr. Le Conte, tl.e letter of resignation of Prof. 

 Frazer was taken fj'oni the table and accepted, and the Society 

 was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, March 4, IS59. 



Present, twent3--two members. 

 Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



New- members wei-e introduced : Dr. Evans b}- Dr. Bridges ; 

 Judge Thompson by Mr. Fi'aley ; Dr. Wister b\' Dr. Le Conte. 



A letter was received from Joi"dan& Brother, of Philadelphia, 

 dated February 28, 1859, enclosing and i-equesting attention 

 to a lettei' from the heii's of Joseph Horsfield, of Bethlehem, 

 deceased, reclaiming through their agents, Jordan & Brother, a 

 certain manuscript volume of correspondence relating to Indian 

 Affairs in the last Century, deposited in the library of the 

 A. P. Societv by the said Joseph Horsfield, and so descj'ibed 

 iii Vol. I. Part 1, of Historical and Literary Transactions, 

 page 4. 



The following donations to the Library were announced: — 



Ten pamphlets of Natural History and one of Chimatology, from 



the proceedings of different societies. — From Dr. Leidy. 

 Monthly Notices . . . R. As. S. xix. iii. Jan. 14, 1857. — From the Soc. 

 Principles of Social Science, by H. C. Carey, III. — From the Avthor. 

 Reply of B. A. Gould to the Statement of the Trustees of the Dudley 



Observatory. Albany, 1859, (pamp. 8vo. 366 pp.) — From the 



Author. 

 First Annual Message of A. Henry, &c. Phila. 1859, (pamp. 172,) 



— From the Councils. 



VOL. VII. — B 



