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read a report from the Committee on the Condition of the 

 Library, its rearrangement, and the preparation of a new 

 Catalogue, offering the following resolutions, which, on mo- 

 tion, were adopted : — 



Resolved : That the Treasurer is hereby directed to refund 

 to the Librarian of the Society, the sum of four hundred and 

 sixty-six dollars and fifteen cents, paid by the Librarian for 

 assistance in rearranging and cataloguing its library. Re- 

 solved : That the Librarian is hereby authorized to make in 

 conjunction with the Committee on the Library, the arrange- 

 ments necessary for printing a catalogue of the books in the 

 Library of the Society. 



Dr. Leidy presented a list of plaster casts of natural his- 

 tory belonging to the Society, and moved that the casts 

 therein mentioned be deposited with the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, upon the same conditions as a deposit formerly made 

 by the Society with the Academy, a complete list of said casts 

 to be presented at a future meeting, which was agreed to. 



A communication was read from Prof. A. D. Bache, re- 

 questing the signatures of the officers of the Society to a me- 

 morial to Congress, in relation to observations proposed to be 

 made of the eclipse of the sun on the 18th of July next, 

 recommending the sanction of Congress to the making of 

 observations by the officers of the United States Coast Sur- 

 vey. On motion of Prof. Cresson, the officers of the Society 

 were authorized to affix their signatures to the said memorial. 



On motion of Prof. Kendall, the St. Louis Academy of 

 Science and the American Oriental Society of New Haven 

 were authorized to receive the Transactions of the Society. 



And the Society adjourned. 



^Stated Meeting, April 20, 1860. 

 Present, nineteen members. 

 Dk. Fkanklin Bache in the Chair. 

 Dr. F. W. Lewis, a newly-elected member, was presented to 

 the President by Dr. Le Conte. 



