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Stated Meeting^ January 5t/i, 1877. 



Present 15 Members. 



Vice-President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Letters of acknowledscnient were received from the Acad- 

 emy at Lisbon, Aug. 24 (XV 2 ; 94, 95), and the Meteoro- 

 logical Office, London, December 1, 1876 (97). 



Letters of envoy were received from the Italian Society of 

 Sciences at (Modena) Rome, and the Society at Liverpool, 

 November 25th, 1876. 



Donations for the Library were received from the P. S. 

 New S. Wales ; the Academies at St. Petersburg, Berlin and 

 Philadelphia ; the Societies at Konigsburg and Boston ; the 

 Institute of Lombardy ; Soc. Ital. d. Sci. at Rome ; R. Qeol. 

 Committee at Rome ; S. Capellini ; Nouv. Met. and Rev. 

 Pol. Paris ; Astron. and Antiq. SS and London Nature ; 

 Franklin Institute ; Coll. of Pharmacy ; Smith. Institution, 

 Dr. Hayden, and the Brazilian Government. 



No. 96 of the Proceedings just published was laid on the 

 table for examination. 



The death of Dr. Jos. Carson, at Philadelphia, Dec. 30, 

 1876, in the 69th year of his age, was announced by Mr. 

 Fraley ; and on motion Dr. John B. Biddle was appointed 

 to prepare an obituary notice of the deceased. 



Mr. Chase made a communication " On the influence of 

 central forces in determining chemical volumes." 



Mr. Britton exhibited specimens of artificial fuel manu- 

 factured from the peat bogs near Syracuse, in New York, 

 and remarked upon its resemblance to the lignite of S. W. 

 Arkansas, promising a further description. 



Mr. Briggs communicated a paper " On Refraction Ta- 

 bles," by Prof. A. K. Mansfield, of Cordova, S. A. 



Dr. LeConte communicated notes and a table to point out 

 the most important features of the memoir published in No. 

 96 of the Proceed ino;s. 



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