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March 11, 1858: — from the Corporation of Harvard College, 

 dated Cambridge, March 11, 1S5S: — and from the American 

 Antiquarian Society, dated March 12, 1858, severally acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of No. 58 of the Proceedings. 

 The following donations were announced : — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Catalogue des livres composant la Bibliotheque Scientifique du feu 

 M. Alexandre Brongniart. Paris, 1858. 8vo. — From the Li- 

 brarian of the Institute. 



Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey for 

 1856. Washington. 4to. — From Prof. A. D. Bache^ Super- 

 intendent. 



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

 3. March, 1858. Philadelphia. 8vo.— From the Institute. 



Second Annual Report of the M'Kean and Elk Land and Improvement 

 Company, 1858. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Company. 



Description of New Organic Remains from north-eastern Kansas, 

 indicating the existence of Permian recks in that territory. (Proc. 

 Alb. Inst. March 2, 1858.) By F. B. Meek and F. V. Hayden, 

 M.D. — From the Albany Institute. 



Remainsof Domestic Animals discovered among Post Pliocene Fossils 

 in South Carolina. By Francis S. Holmes, A.M. With letters 

 from Profs. Leidy and Agassiz. Charleston, 1858. 8vo. — 

 From the Author. 



The Principles of Social Science. By Henry C. Carey. In three 

 volumes. Vol.1. Philadelphia, 1858. 8vo. — From the Author. 



The African Repository. Vol. XXIV. No. 3. March, 1858. Wash- 

 ington. 8vo. — From the Am. Colonization Society. 



Reminiscenses of Carpenters' Hall. Philadelphia, 1858. 8vo. — 

 From the Carpenters' Company. 



Mr. Colwell, pursuant to appointment, read an obituary me- 

 moir of Mr. Isaac R. Davis, a deceased member of the Society. 



Isaac R. Davis, whose loss we now deplore, departed this life on 

 the 4th of February, 1857. He was born in the year 1809, in the 

 County of Montgomery, in the State of Pennsylvania. Evan Davis, 

 his father, was a respectable member of the Society of Friends. His 

 early education was received at a Friends' school in West Town, 

 Chester County. He was at an early age apprenticed to a merchant 



