«*it> [Dec. 16, 1892. 



Dr. Morris moved that the subject be referred to the Library 

 Committee with power to act. 



Mr, Price offered the following substitute, which was ac- 

 cepted by Dr. Morris and adopted by the Society. 



Dr. Cones, a member of the Society from Washington, having presented 

 a request to the Society that the Lewis and Clark papers deposited with 

 the Society, on April 8, 1818, under a receipt of that date be loaned to 

 him for the purpose of preparing a new edition of the travels of those 

 gentlemen, it was on motion of Mr. Price : 



Resolved, That the Librarian be authorized to lend to Dr. Coues all the 

 papers now in our possession deposited by Lewis and Clark in the 

 3'ear 1818, as per said receipt, he taking from the doctor his obligation 

 (with a sufficient penalty) to take care of them, keep them when not in 

 his library in some safe deposit vault at Washington, and return them at 

 the expiration of three months unless further time shall be given to him 

 to retain them. 



Mr. Williams offered the following resolution, which after 

 discussion was adopted : 



Resolved, That the Curators of the Society be requested to report upon 

 the cost of placing the Poinsett and Keating collection in this Museum and 

 caring for it, and upon other collections or institutions in this city, if any, 

 ■with which this collection could be deposited with advantage to the cause 

 of science and the study of this collection, and upon some plan for arrang- 

 ing the collections of the Society in its Museum in accordance with the 

 wishes, if any, of the donors of different collections. 



The result of the balloting for members was rei)orted to the 

 President, who declared the following named to have been duly 

 elected members of the Society. 



2205. Mr. Charles H. Cramp, Philadelphia. 



2206. Prof. Samuel G. Dixon, M.D., Philadelphia. 



2207. Prof. John M. Macfarlane, D. Sc, Lansdowne, Phila. 



2208. Prof. Francis X. Dercum, M.D., Philadelphia. 



2209. Prof. James Ellis Humphrey, D. Sc, Amherst, Mass. 



And the Society was adjourned by the President, 



