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of xui,and 2 of xiv, to complete the set, \a hich was on motion 

 so ordered ; also from 



The K. Leop. Car. Deutsch Akademie der Naturforscher 

 requesting exchanges, having only Trans. Vol. I. 0. S. 1769. 

 The request was referred to the Publication Committee with 

 power to act ; also from 



A. J. Holman & Co., 930 Arch street, tendering a request 

 for the loan of the Elliot Bible in the Library of the Soci- 

 ety. The request was referred to the Library Committee with 

 power to act. 



The request of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy for 

 No. 93 to complete their set, was granted. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Geologi- 

 cal Institute at Vienna ; the Leop. Car. German Academy 

 at Dresden ; the Prussian Academy, and Horticultural 

 Society, and Herr Schwalbe of Berlin ; the Society at Em- 

 den ; the Belgian Academy ; the Geographical Society and 

 Reviews in Paris : the P. Astronomical and Geographical 

 Societies in London ; the ISTatural History Society at New 

 Castle ; the P. Irish Academy ; the Boston Society N. H ; 

 the Cambridge Museum C, Z. ; Silliman's Journal ; American 

 Chemist ; Dr. J. S. Newberry ; Poughkeepsie Society of 

 Natural Sciences (ordered to be placed on the list to receive 

 the Proceedings) ; Journal of Pharmacy ; Penn Monthly ; 

 U. S. Department of the Interior; U. S. Coast Survey ; Geor- 

 gia Historical Society, and the San Francisco Mercantile 

 Library Association. 



Mr. Wootten communicated, through Dr. Cresson, a paper 

 on the successful use of anthracite coal-dirt on a new 

 form of locomotive, drawing coal trains, on the Reading 

 Railway, and described on the blackboard the form of fire- 

 box floor, draft tuyeres, absence of exhaust and smoke 

 stack, length of flame, &c., Ac. 



Pending nominations Nos. 792, 793 were read, and the 

 meeting was adjourned. 



