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and Librarian, made a report recommending sundry amend- 

 ments of the Laws of the Society, together with certain resolu- 

 tions relating to the suhject. . 



The report of the Committee was unanimously accepted, and 

 laid over for furtlier action at the next stated meeting. 



The resolution offered >by Dr. Morris, at the last meeting, 

 was further postponed. 



On motion of Dr. Wm. Harris, a committee, consisting of 

 Dr. Harris, Mr. Dunlap and Mr. Patterson, was appointed to 

 procure a portrait of Judge Kane, late President of the Society. 



On motion it was i-esolved that the Librarian be authorized 

 to take order on the distribution of the published Proceedings 

 of the Society. 



Mr. Justice, at his request, was excused from further service 

 as a member of the Committee on the purchase of a hall. 



Stated Meetings Jlpril 16. 



Present, thirty-five members. 



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



Letters were read: — 



From the Royal Danish Society of Sciences, dated Copen- 

 hagen, June 30, 1857; — from the Society of Naturalists at Riga, 

 dated July 3, 1857; — from the Imperial Academy of Sciences 

 dated Vienna, Sept. 17, 1857; — from the Royal Saxon Society 

 of Sciences, dated Leipzic, Oct. 1, 1857; — from the Academy 

 of Arts, Sciences and Belles-lettres of Dijon, dated Jan. 17, 

 1857; — and from the Imperial Royal Lombardy Institute of 

 Science, Letters and Arts, dated Milan, Jan. 20, 1858, severally 

 accompanying donations for the library: — 



From the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, dated 

 March 3-15, 1857; — from the Royal Academy of Sciences at 

 Turin, dated May 15, 1857; — from the Royal Danish Society 

 of Sciences, dated Copenhagen, June 30, 1857; — from the 

 Royal Saxon Society of Sciences, dated Leipzig, Oct. 1, 1857; 

 and from the Massachusetts Historical Society, dated Boston, 



