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Stated Meeting, March 2, 1860. 



Present, twenty members. 



Professor Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Aubrey H. Smith, a newly-elected member, was pre- 

 sented, and took his seat. 



Letters were read from the Public Library at Boston, 

 acknowledging the reception of Part 2, Vol. xi of the Trans- 

 actions, and from W. Polman, of the University of New 

 York, which was referred to the Librarian, with power to take 

 order. 



The following donations for the Library were announced : — 



Ann. Rep. (8th) Free Pub. Lib. New Bedford. — From the Trustees. 

 African Repository, xxxvi, No. 2. — From Amer. Col. JSoc. 

 Proc. Acad. N. S. Philada. 1860. Sig. 1. — From the Academi/. 

 Monthly Notices R. Astron. Soc. xx, No. 3. — From the Society. 

 Astronomical Journal, Cambridge, Mass. vi, xi. — From the Editor. 

 Hayes's Arctic Boat Journey. Boston, 1860. 8vo. — From the Author. 

 Report Supt. U. S. Coast Survey for 1858. 4to. — From the Supt. 



Hallowell (Edward). Mr. Foulke announced the death 

 of Dr. Edward Hallowell, a member of the Society, who died 

 February 20, 1800, ^et. 51 ; and, on motion of Judge Shars- 

 wood, Mr. Foulke was appointed to prepare an obituary notice 

 of the deceased. 



Mr. Lesley drew the attention of the members present to 

 the geological account of the Arctic Archipelago, affixed by 

 the Rev. Samuel Haughton, President of the Geological So- 

 ciety of Dublin, to Capt. McClintock's Narrative. The coal 

 measures of the extreme north land of America are therein 

 described as older than the carboniferous formation ; as suc- 

 ceeding the upper silurian limestones ; containing numerous 

 beds of highly bituminous coal, with one fossil shell, — the 

 Atrypa fallax of the carboniferous shale of Ireland ; finally, 

 as overlaid by a series of blue limestone beds full of charac- 

 teristic carboniferous marine shells, among which occurs the 



