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The Society then proceeded to the stated business of the 

 meeting, the balloting for candidates for membership. 



All other business having been concluded, the ballot boxes 

 were opened by the presiding officer, and the following named 

 gentlemen declared to be duly elected members of the Soci- 

 ety:— 



Rev. J. C. Adamson, D. D., of Philadelphia. 



J. P. Lesley, do. 



Rev. John Leyburn, do. 



Hugh Blair Grigsby, L.L.D., of Virginia. 



Stated Meeting, August 15. 



Present, eight members. 



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



The Rev. Dr. Leyburn, a recently elected member, was in- 

 troduced, and took his seat. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Rev. John Leyburn, dated Philadelphia, Aug. 13, 

 1856, acknowledging the receipt of notice of his election as a 

 member of the Society: — 



From Dr. William Balfour Baikie, dated Haslar Hospital, 

 near Portsmouth, July 9, 1S56, accompanying a donation for 

 the library: — 



From the Trustees of the Boston Athenaeum, dated July 31, 

 1856; — from the Corporation of Harvard College, and from 

 the New Jersey Historical Society, dated Aug. 1, 1856: — 

 from the Connecticut Historical Society, dated Hartford, Aug. 

 2, 1856, — severally acknowledging the receipt of No. S^ of 

 the Proceedings: and — 



From John Samuel, Esq., dated Philadelphia, Aug. 12, 

 1856, offering for sale certain property to the Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



for the library. 

 Journal of the Royal Dublin Society. No. 2. July, 1856. Dublin. 

 8vo. — From the Society. 



