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The Society then proceeded to ballot for candidates for 

 membership. 



New nomination, No. 397, was read. 



Prof. Trego, Judge King, and Mr. Price were appointed a 

 committee on the subject of a telescope now in the State 

 Library at Harrisburg, reported to be the one ordered for the 

 Transit of Venus in 1769. 



All other business having been concluded, the ballot-boxes 

 were opened by the President, and the following named gentle- 

 men declared duly elected members of the Society. 



P. Angelo Secchi, Professor of Astronomy at Rome. 



Aubrey H. Smith, Attorney-at-Law, of Philadelphia. 



Dr. Francis W. Lewis, of Philadelphia. 



And the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting^ February 3, 1860. 



Present, nineteen members. 



Dr. George B. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



A letter was received from Aubrey H. Smith, acknowledg- 

 ing notice of his election. 



Letters were received from the Director of the Russian 

 Observatory, dated St. Petersburg, August 30, 1859, from 

 the Royal Danish Society, dated Copenhagen, July 1, 1859, 

 and from the Corporation of Harvard College, dated Cam- 

 bridge, January 16, 1860, acknowledging copies of the Pro- 

 ceedings. 



Letters were received from the Society of Naturalists at 

 Moscow, dated June 13, 1859, from the Director of the Cen- 

 tral Observatory, dated St. Petersburg, August 30, 1859, and 

 from the Royal Bavarian Academy, dated Munchen, October 

 1, 1859, transmitting donations for this Library. 



The following donations for the Library were announced : — ■ 



Annales des Mines, xv, 1, 2 Is. de 1859. — From B. des Fonts, &c. 

 Bulletin S. Imp. Naturalistes. Moscow. No. 4, 1, 2, 3. — From the 

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