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erect the Society*s Hall, on Fifth street below Chestnut; a 

 paper containing the names of subscribers towards the pay- 

 ment of the expenses of Andrew Michaux, on a journey of 

 discovery to the western country; with some other papers 

 containing memoranda of financial affairs. 



Stated Meeting, JJpril 3. 



Present, ten members. 



Judge Kane, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From Dr. Nathaniel 13. ShurtleP*, dated Boston, March 21, 

 1857, acknowledging the receipt of notice of his election as a 

 member of the Society: and — 



From the Rev. Henry A. Boardman, dated Philadelphia, 

 March 25, 1S57, asking to be excused from his appointment 

 to prepare an obituary notice of the late Dr. Ellsha K. Kane. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. VI. 

 Nos* 7, 8. March, 1857. Boston. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Report of the Twenty-fiflh Exhibition of American Manufactures, held 

 in the City of Philadelphia, from 11th to 29th Nov. 1856, by the 

 Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, &c» Philadelphia. 

 8vo.^ — From the Insfitvte. 



Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a Report from 

 the Register of the Treasury, of the Commerce and Navigation 

 of the United States, for the year ending June 30, 1856. Wash- 

 ington. 8vo. 



Report of the Commissioner of Patents, for the year 1855. Arts and 

 Manvfactures. Vols. 1, 2. Washington. 8vo. — From the 

 Hon. J. R. Tyson. 



Address delivered at the University of Pennsylvania, before the So- 

 ciety of the Alumni, on the occasion of their Annual Celebration. 

 Dec. 10, 1856. By the Hon. George Sharswood, L.L.D. 

 Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Author. 

 VOL. VI. — 2 M 



