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Stated Meeting, April 6th, 1860. 



Present, twenty-four members. 

 Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read from the Smithsonian Institution, dated 

 January 10, 1860, from the Geographical Society of Paris, 

 Feb. 20, 1860, from the Boston Public Library, Feb. 21, 

 1860, from the Massachusetts Historical Society, March 13, 

 1860, acknowledging the receipt of publications of the Society. 



The following donations for the Library were announced : — 



Bulletin de la Soc. (ieog. I, xviii, July — Dec. '^9.— From the Society. 

 Monthly Notices R. Astron. Soc. Vol. xx, No. 4. — From the Society. 

 Proc. Best. Soc. Nat. Hist, vii, signatures 13, 14. — From the Society. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, sig. 4. — From the Academy. 

 Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. York, Vol. vii, Nos. 1-3. — From the Lyceum. 

 Amer. Jour, of Science, New Haven, March, 1860. — From the Editors. 

 Amer. Jour, of Med. Sci. April, 1860. — From Blanchard & Lea. 

 Med. News& Libr., Mar. & Apr., I860.— i^z-owi Blanchard c& Lea. 

 Jour, of Franklin Inst. No. 411, March, 1860. — From the Listitute. 

 History of the Religious Society of Friends, by S. M. Janney, in 



four Vols. Vol. 1, second edition, 480 pp. 8vo. Phila. I860.— 



From the Author. 

 What may be Learned from a Tree, by Harland Coultas. Second 



edition, 200 pp. 8vo. Phila. I860.— iVowi the Author. 

 Ann. Address on the Events of the Year, before the Phil. Co. Me- 

 dical Soc., Feb. 22, 1860, by Benjamin Horner Coates, M.D., 30 



pp. 8vo. Phila. 1860. — From the Author. 

 Communication from the Director of the Mint to the Secretary of 



the Treasury, relative to a proposed Branch 3Iint at New York, 



12 pp. Svo. Phila. I860.— /Vom the Board of Trade. 

 Total Eclipse of July, 1860, 6 pp. 8vo. Washington, I860.— From 



the Nautical Almanac Office. 

 Reflections upon the Temporary Star of 1572, by Alex. Wilcocks, 



M.D., 12 pp. 4to. Phila. 1840.— i^rom the Author. 

 Obs. on the Genus Unio, by Isaac Lea, Vol. vii. — From the Author. 

 Extracts from Proc. A. N. S. Phil, by Isaac Lea, 24 pp. Svo. — 



From the Author. 

 Polar Exploring Expedition. A Special Meeting of the Am. Geog. 



