'" [Jan 2, 



with directions to farmers for applying it to their crops, and observations 

 which cannot fail to impart much useful practical information." 



[There is conclusive evidence that this pamphlet was written by Dr. 

 Emerson.] 



"Cotton in the Middle States; with Directions for its Easy Culture." By 

 G. Emerson, M.D. Author of the "Farmer's and Planter's Encyclope- 

 dia," Philadelphia, 1862. . 



" Land Drainage." An address delivered before the Farmer's Club of 

 Kent County, Del., at Dover, January, 1872. By G. Emerson, M.D., of 

 Philadelphia. [Illustrated by a topographical sketch map of Kent county, 

 Del.] 



"The Organization of Labor, in accordance with Custom and the Law 

 of the Decalogue ; with a summary of comparative observations upon 

 good and evil in the regime of labor, the causes of evil existing in the 

 present time, and the means required to effect reform ; with objections 

 and answers, difficulties and solutions." By F. Le Play, Senator (of 

 France), Inspector-General of Mines, Commissioner-General to the Uni- 

 versal Exposition (in Paris), of 1855, 1862 and 1867. Author of Des 

 Ouvriers Europeens and La Reforme Sociale. 



" Les politiques veulent en un etat bien regie, plus des maitres des arts 

 mechaniques, que de maitres des arts libereaux." Richelieu {Testament 

 Polito). 



Translated by Gouverueur Emerson, M.D., member of the American 

 Philosophical Society. From the French of the second revised and cor- 

 rected edition published at Tours, in 1870. Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfin- 

 ger, Philadelphia, 1872. 12mo, pp. 417. 



Stated Meeting, Januarg #, 1891. 



Present, 17 members. 



Mr. Dudley in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted and accessions to the Library 

 were announced. 



A letter was received from Mr. L. Vossion, dated Philadel- 

 phia, December 20, 1890, accepting membership. 



A circular was received in regard to the celebration of the 

 seventieth birthday of Prof. Rudolph Virchow, from the Com- 

 mittee on the same in Berlin. 



