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troversies, seeing that all human science must consist of facts, 

 or assemblages of facts, perceived by means of the senses ; 

 and that, therefore, metaphysics must rest as much on per- 

 ceptible facts as does any of the so-called natural sciences. 

 He promised to pursue the subject at a future meeting. 



The minutes of the last meeting of the Board of Officers 

 and Council were read, and, in accordance with a recommen- 

 dation therein, the Dublin Geological Society, the London 

 Philological Society, and the Liege Academy of Sciences, 

 were ordered to be entered on the list of Corresponding 

 Societies, and a copy of the New Series of the Transactions 

 to be given to the first-named. 



Pending nomination No. 397, and new nominations, from 

 398 to No. 415, were read. 



A bill was presented for the painting of a portrait of Dr. 

 N. Chapman by Waugh, after Sully, amounting to $125, and 

 was ordered to be paid. 



And the Society adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, June 15, 1860. 



Present, seven members. 



Judge Sharswood, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters, announcing donations to the Library, were read 

 from the Academy at Vienna, dated July 7 and December 

 17; the Academy at Stockholm, dated November 25; and 

 the Academy at Amsterdam, dated November 30, 1859. 



Letters, acknowledging the receipt of donations from this 

 Society, were read from the London Linnean Society, dated 

 June 1, 1859 ; from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 

 dated Philadelphia, May 29; from the Royal Library at 

 Berlin, dated February 29 ; from the Natural History Society 

 at Bonn, dated February 1 ; from the Imperial Academy at 

 Vienna, dated February 24 ; and from Prof. Von Leonhard, 

 of Heidelberg, dated February 26, 1860. 



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