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Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge: Keseaiches on the Am- 

 monia Cobalt Bases. By Wolcott Gibbs and F. A. Genth, 1856. 

 4to. — From the Authors. 



Approximate Co-tidal lines of Diurnal and Serai-diurnal Tides of the 

 Coast of the United States on the Gulf of Mexico. By A. D. 

 Bache, Superintendent of the U. S. Coast Survey. 8vo. — From 

 the Author. 



A Catalogue of Theological Books in Foreign Languages, including 

 the Sacred Writings, Fathers, Doctors of the Church, Schoolmen, 

 and Ecclesiastical Historians, to the death of Boniface VIII. iWd, 

 &c. &c., on sale by David Nutt, and Trubner & Co. London, 

 1857. 8vo. — From Triibner J^ Co. 



Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers and Students of the University oC 

 Pennsylvania. Session 1856-7. Pliiladelphia. 8vo. — From 

 Prof. C. B. Trego. 



Dr. W. Harris, from the committee appointed at last meet- 

 ing, relative to a portrait of Dr. Kane, reported that Mr. 

 Lambdin offers to paint a portrait, of a size corresponding; to 

 those already in the Hall of the Society, for one hundred dol- 

 lars: — 



Whereupon, the committee was authorized to contract with 

 Mr. Lambdin for the execution of the portrait, and an appro- 

 priation of ^100 was made to defray the cost of the same. 



The Rev. Dr. Boardman having requested to be excused, 

 Prof A. D. Bache was appointed to prepare an obituary notice 

 of the late Dr. Kane. 



Prof Kendall having taken the chair, the following resolu- 

 tion was offered by Judge Kane, which was read, considered, 

 and adopted: — 



Resolved, That Prof. Trego, Prof. Frazer, and Mr. Thomas L. 

 Kane, be authorized and empowered as a committee to proceed to 

 Harrisburg, and there to solicit of the Legislature, if they shall deem 

 it expedient, the deposit with this Society of the geological collection 

 now the property of the State. 



