Report of the Auditor General on the Finances of the Commonwealth 

 of Pennsylvania, for the year ending Nov. 30, 1853. Harris- 

 burg. &vo.—Frcm 31. W. Baldwin, Esq, 



Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools of the Common- 

 wealth of Pennsylvania, for the school year ending June 6, 

 1853. Harrisburgr. 8vo. — From the same. 



The Plough, the Loom and the Anvil. Vol. VII. No. 1. Jan. 1854. 

 New York. 8vo. — F?^om the Editors. 



Dr. F. Bache announced the decease of Thomas G. Mower, 

 M.D., U. S. A., a member of this Society, who died at New 

 York, on the 7tli ultimo, aged 62. 



Dr. La Roche announced the death of Nathaniel A. Ware, 

 a member of the Society. 



Judge Kane informed the Society that intelligence had been 

 received from the American Arctic Exploring Expedition, as 

 late as to the end of July, at which time all was prosperous with 

 them. He mentioned the fact that the astronomer attached to 

 the party had detected an error of a full degree of longitude 

 in the position of the coast of Greenland, as laid down in 

 Graah's chart, and recorded by other observers. 



About the first of August the party intended to divide near 

 the coast: — one division to proceed with provisions for forty 

 days, and with a boat which could be transported by land, to 

 as remote a point as possible, where they would leave a depot 

 of provisions to which they might return in the spring, 



Mr. Trego was re-elected Librarian for the ensuing year. 



The usual Standing Committees were appointed as follows: 



Finatice — Mr. Wagner, Mr. Justice, Mr. Fraley. 



Hall — Judge Kane, Mr. F. Peale, Mr. Justice. 



Library — Dr. Hays, Mr. Geo. Campbell, Mr. Ord. 



Publication — Mr. Trego, Dr. Elwyn, Prof. Frazer. 



The Secretaries reported that they had appointed Mr. Trego 

 as Reporter of the Society for the ensuing year. 



The Society then proceeded to ballot for candidates for 

 membership. 



The list of surviving members of the Society was read: — 

 the number on the list on the first of January, 1854, was 

 362; — of whom 261 are resident in the United States, and 

 101 in foreign countries. 



