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and granular consistency, and was followed by intense cold. 

 Immediately succeeding the storm, the thermometers indicated 

 a lower degree of temperature to the southward of Philadel- 

 phia than to the northward. He attributed to the peculiar cha- 

 racter of this snow-storm, the deep and intense freezing of the 

 soil beneath, and the unusual cold of the winter. 



The Committee on the sale of the Society's Hall reported 

 articles of an ajireement for the sale of the Hall to the Govern- 

 ment of the United States, for the purpose of holding courts 

 of justice therein and offices connected therewith: — Which 

 agreement was read, approved, and ordered to be executed. 



On motion of Dr. Franklin Bache it was resolved, — That 

 the Secretaries be directed to write to those members appointed 

 to prepare obituary notices prior to 1854, and who have not 

 yet read them, reminding them of their appointment and re- 

 questing to be informed when it will be convenient for them 

 to fulfil the duties assigned to them. 



Stated Meeting, Jlpril 4. 



Present, seventeen members. 



Dr. DuNGLisoN, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Statistical Society, dated London, Oct. 11, 1S55, 

 acknowledging the receipt of No. 51 of the Proceedings of this 

 Society: — 



From the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences, dated Leipzig, 

 Nov. 24, 1855, returning thanks for Proceedings, Jan. -Dec. 

 1854:— 



From the l^yceum of Natural History of New York, dated 

 March 20, 1856, acknowledging the receipt of No. 53 of the 

 Proceedings: and — 



From Clement A. Finley, M.D. Surgeon U. S. A. dated Phi- 

 ladelphia, April 4, 1856, presenting a donation for the libraiy, 

 on behalf of Brig. Gen. Lawson, Surgeon General of the U. S. 

 Army. 



