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Mr. Lesley made a verbal communication respecting a 

 deposit of quartz crystals and a deposit of a silicate of alu- 

 mina between the roof rock and the top layer of an anthracite 

 coal bed, and exhibited a fossil plant from the same neigh- 

 borhood. 



And the Society adjourned. 



Stated Meeting November 2, 1860. 



Prof. Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Present, seven members. 



Letters were read, acknowledging the receipt of the Trans- 

 actions and Proceedings, from the Imperial Society of Na- 

 turalists at Moscow, dated May 12th ; the Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences at Vienna, dated April 20th ; the Royal Saxon 

 Society at Leipsig, dated May 1st ; the Royal Society of 

 Sciences at Gottingen, June 3d ; the Royal Academy of Bel- 

 gium, dated Bruxelles, March 20th ; the Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society of Manchester, dated May 31st ; and the 

 Philosophical and Literary Society at Leeds, dated July 

 24th, 1860. 



A letter was read from the Royal Bavarian Academy of 

 Sciences, dated Munich, June 12th, 1860, acknowledging the 

 receipt of Transactions and Proceedings, and requesting a com- 

 plete second set of Transactions and Proceedings, for reasons 

 stated, and an equivalent proposed, which, on motion of Mr. 

 Fraley, was committed for consideration to the committee 

 on the Library, with power to act. 



Letters were read, transmitting donations for the Library, 

 from the Imperial Academy at Vienna, dated June 25 ; the 

 Royal Society at Gottingen, dated June 16th ; the Imperial 

 Academy at St. Petersburg, dated April 23d ; and the Royal 

 Geographical Society of London, dated July 24th, 1860. 



