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mitted to import apparatus duty free, while private investigators, usually 

 less able to aiford expense, are obliged to pay duty, therefore 



Be it Resolved, That the American Philosophical Society hereby requests 

 the representatives of the State of Pennsylvania in the Congress of the 

 United States to use all possible efforts to have placed on the free list books 

 pertaining to the physical, natural and medical sciences, and apparatus 

 intended for purposes of scientific research or of education, and further 

 be it 



Resolved, That a copy of these preambles and resolutions be forwarded 

 to each member of Congress from the State of Pennsylvania. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting^ January 16^ 1885. 



Present, 20 members. 



President, Mr. Fealey, in the Chair. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Mining 

 Department at Melbourne ; the Academy of Arts and Sciences 

 at Batavia ; the Royal Asiatic Society ; the Royal Academy 

 dei Lincei ; the Geographical Society at Paris ; the Revue 

 Politique; the Meteorological Society and Meteorological 

 Council at London ; the Journal of Forestry; London Nature ; 

 the Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada ; the 

 Boston Society of Natural History ; the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology ; the American Chemical Society ; Mr. R. R. 

 Bowker, New York ; Mr. C. E. Beecher, of Albany ; the 

 American Journal of the Medical Sciences ; the College of 

 Pharmacy ; the Franklin Institute ; Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr. ; 

 Dr. E. W. Syle ; the American Chemical Journal; Johns 

 Hopkins University ; the Treasury Department ; the Chief 

 Signal Office; the United States Commission of Fish and 

 Fisheries ; Mr. Jed. Hotchkiss, of Staunton, Va. ; and the 

 Minnesota Historical Society. 



