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Stated Meeting, February 15. 



Present, seventeen members. 



Prof. Frazer, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Prof. G. A. Matile, Mr. A. S. Letch worth and Prof. George 

 Allen, recently elected members, were presented to the pre- 

 siding officer and took their seats. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Rev. W. R. De Witt, State Librarian, dated Har- 

 risburg, Jan. 31, 1856; — from the American Antiquarian Socie- 

 ty, dated Worcester, Mass. Feb. 1, 1856; — from the New Jer- 

 sey Historical Society, dated Newark, Feb. 2, 1856; — from 

 the Corporation of Yale College, dated New Haven, Feb. 5, 

 1856, and from the Connecticut Historical Society, dated Hart- 

 ford, Feb. 6, 1856, — severally returning thanks for No. 54 of 

 the Proceedings of the Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Information concerning the History, Condition and Prospects of the 

 Indian Tribes of the United States: Collected and prepared under 

 the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, per Act of Con- 

 gress of March 3, 1847. By Henry R. Schoolcraft, L.L.D. Part 

 V. Philadelphia, 1855. 4to. — From the Commissioner of In- 

 dian Affairs. 



Reports of Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the most practica- 

 ble and econr.mical route for a Railroad from the Mississippi river 

 to the Pacific Ocean: — made under the direction of the Secretary 

 of War, in 1853-4, according to Acts of Congress. Vol. I. 

 Washington, 1855. 4to.— From Col. J. J. Ahert. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XXXI. No. 2. 

 Feb. 1856. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute, 



Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. New 

 Scries. Vol.111. Part 2. riiiladclphia, 1855. 4to. — From the 

 Academy. 



Report on the Recent Progress of Organic Chetnistry, made to the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, August, 



