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The Astronomical Journal. No. 110. Feb. 13, 1858. Albany. 



4to. — From Dr. B. A. Gould, Jr., Editor. 

 Report of Major J. D. Graham on the Commerce and Improvement 



of the Western Lake Harbours. Part 1, 1854-5. Part 2, 1856. 



Senate Document No. 16. Washington. 8vo. — From the Author, 

 Boston Journal of Natural History. Vol. VI. No. 4. Boston, 



1857. 8vo. 

 Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, p. 273-304. 



Oct. 7 — Dec. 16, 1857. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Journal of the FrankHn Institute. Third Series. Vol. XXXV. No. 



2. Feb. 1858. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 

 On the Heights of the Tides of the United States, from Observations 



on the Coast Survey. (Am. Jour. Sci.) 8vo. — From A. D. 



Bache, Sup't. U. S. Coast Survey. 

 The American Journal of Insanity. Vol. XIV. No. 1. July, 1857. 



Utica. 8vo. 

 The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Reports of the IManagers of the State 

 'Lunatic Asylum at Utica, N. Y. 1856, 1857. Albany. 8vo. — 



Fro?n the Managers. 

 Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Institu- 

 tion for the Deaf and Dumb, for 1857. Philadelphia. 8vo. — 



From the Directors. 

 Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Llouse of 



Refuge, 1858. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Managers. 

 Observations on the Genus Unio, together with descriptions of New 



Species in the Himily Unionidce. Vol. VI. Part 1. 1857. By 



Isaac Lea, LL.D. Philadelphia. 4to. — From the Author. 



The minutes of the Board of Officers and Council at their 

 last meeting were read. 



A resolution was offered to rescind the resolutions adopted 

 at the last meeting, defining the duties and fixing the compen- 

 sation of tlie Treasurer and Librarian. 



An amendment was offered that a committee be appointed to 

 revise the laws of the Society, with a view to a definition of 

 the duties of the offices of Librarian and Treasurer, and a pro- 

 per compensation for such duties: — and pending the considera- 

 tion of this subject, the Socict}^ was adjourned. 



