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the City Councils, relative to a sale or exchange of the Socie- 

 ty's Hall, reported progress. 



The following resolution was offered b}^ Mr. Foulke, which 

 was read, considered and adopted: 



Resolved, That a Committee of five be appointed, whose duty it 

 shall be to consider the expediency of a memorial (and if expedient 

 to prepare the draft of one) to the Legislature of the Commonwealth, 

 containing such representations as they shall deem expedient for pro- 

 curing the publication, in sections, on a large scale, of the general 

 map of the geology of the State; and also the deposit, in the Depart- 

 ment of State, of the materials procured during the geological sur- 

 vey of the State for said map, and for the reports of the State Geo- 

 logist; — and that the said Committee make report at the next stated 

 meeting of the Society. 



The Committee appointed under this resolution consists of 

 Mr. Foulke, Mr. Trego, Prof. Frazer, Dr. Le Conte and Dr. 

 Franklin Bache. 



Stated Meeting, April 20. 



Present, eighteen members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From E, Brown Sequard, dated New York, April 10, 1S55, 

 acknowledging the receipt of notice of his election as a mem- 

 ber of this Society: — 



From the Geographical Society, dated Paris, Oct. 30, 1854, 

 returning thanks for the Transactions of this Society. Vol. X. 

 Part 3. 



From the Boston Society of Natural History, dated April 

 12, 1S55, acknowledging the receipt of Nos. 49-51 of the 

 Proceedings: and — 



From the Imperial Society of Sciences, Agriculture and the 

 Arts, of Lille, without date, announcing a donation for the li- 

 brary. 



