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Yellow Fever, considered in its Historical, Pathological, Etiologicil 

 and Therapeutical Relations; including a Sketch of the Disease 

 as it has occurred in Philadelphia from 1699 to 1854: — with an 

 examination ot" tho coiuicctions between it and the Fevers known 

 under the same name in other parts oi" temperate as well as in tropi- 

 cal regions. By R. La Roche, M.D. Mem. Am. Phil. Society, 

 &c. &c. 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1855. 8vo. — F7'o?n the Author, 



Voyage autour de la Mer Morte et dans les Torres Bibliques, executee 

 de Decembre 1850 a Avril 1851. Par F. de Saulcy, ancien eleve 

 de I'Ecole Polytechnique, Membre de I'Institut. Publie sous les au- 

 spices du Ministre de I'Instruction Publique. XV. Livraison, 3Iol- 

 lusqves Terrestres et Fluviatilts. — XVf. Livraison, Catalogue 

 des Plantes, et des Especes d^Inscctes Coleopteres. Paris, 1853. 

 4to. — From Prof. J. F. Frazer. 



Address before the Lyceum of Natural History of Williams College, 

 Aug. 14, 1855. By Prof. William B. Rogers, Boston. 8vo.— 

 From the Author. 



Annales des Mines. V. Serie. Tome VI. 6 livraison de 1854. Paris. 

 8vo. — Fro7n the Engineers ofVEcole des Mines. 



Fifty-seven Pamphlets and Papers on scientific subjects, chiefly relat- 

 ing to Geology and Mineralogy. By William Haidinger. Vienna, 

 1841-1855. 4to and 8vo. — From the Author. 



The African Repository. Vol. XXXI. No. 12. Dec. 1855. Washing- 

 ton. 8vo. — From the Am. Colonization Society. 



The Medical News and Library. Vol. XIII. No. 156. Dec. 1855. 

 Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Blanchard (S^^ Lea. 



Mr. Ord, pursuant to appointment at a former meeting, read 

 an obituary notice of the late Col. C. C. Biddle, a member of 

 this Society. 



Clement Cornell Biddle was descended from a family that early 

 settled in America. His ancestor, William Biddle, a citizen of Lon- 

 don, emigrated to West New Jersey in the year 1681, shortly be- 

 fore the arrival of William Penn in this country; and, becoming a 

 large landed proprietor, resided there until his death. Some of the 

 descendants of William Biddle afterwards removed to Philadelphia, 

 where the family have since principally lived. His great-grandson, 

 Clement Biddle, the father of the subject of this notice, was born in 

 this city about the middle of the Inst century; and was educated in 

 the principles of the Society of Friends. But when the strugfde for 



