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porter of the proceedings of the Society, and shall cause such abstract 

 of the Proceedings to be published for the use of the members and for 

 distribution to correspondents as the Secretaries may deem expedient 

 or proper, or as the Society may direct ; but no expense shall be in- 

 curred, or any contracts made for printing or publishing the same, 

 beyond the sum appropriated by the Society for such purposes. 



Sect. 9. He shall receive an annual salary of seven hundred dol- 

 lars, to be paid monthly from the treasury of the Society, and his ser- 

 vices shall commence the first Monday after his election. 



The preamble and resolutions attached to the report of the 

 Committee were also unanimously adopted. 



All other business having been concluded, the ballot box was 

 opened by the presiding officer, who declared that Prof. Wil- 

 liam H. Allen, of Philadelphia, was duly elected a member 

 of the Society. 



Stated Meeting, May 7. 



Present, twenty members. 



Prof. Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From Prof. W. H. Allen, dated Girard College, April 19, 

 1858, acknowledging the receipt of notice of his election as a 

 member of the Society: — 



From the Geographical Society of Paris, dated Nov. 24, 

 1857, — and from the Leeds Philosophical Society, dated Dec. 

 8, 1857, both returning thanks for Vol. XI. Part 1, of the 

 Transactions of this Society: — 



From the Horticultural Society at Berlin, dated Sept. 28, 

 1857, acknowledging the receipt of Nos. 51-55 of the Pro- 

 ceedings of this Society, and also announcing a donation for 

 the library: — 



From the Royal Academy of Sciences, at Amsterdam, dated 

 Aug. 15, 1857, accompanying a donation for the library: — 



From the Royal Norwegian University at Christiania, an- 

 nouncing the presentation by the University to this Society, 

 of a Bronze Medal, stiuck on the occasion of the celebration of 



