PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. VIIL JANUARY— JUNE, 1861. No. 65. 



Stated Meeting, January 4, 1861. 



Present, sixteen members. 



Judge Sharswood, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Essex 

 Institute, at Salem, the Bureau des Ponts et Chaussees, the 

 London Astronomical Society, Sotheby & Wilkinson, book- 

 sellers of London, and Dr. Joseph Leidy. 



Prof. Lesley was nominated for librarian for the ensuing 

 year. 



Pending nominations Nos. 416 and 417 were read. 



Dr. Bache read an extract from a letter of the President, 

 dated Madrid, December 16, 1860, expressing a wish commu- 

 nicated to him by the Academic Imperiale des Sciences, 

 Belles Lettres et Arts, at Bordeaux, to be placed en rapport 

 with this Society. On motion of Dr. Bache the name of the 

 Academy was ordered to be placed on the list of correspond- 

 ing Societies, and to be furnished with the New Series of 

 Transactions, if, in the opinion of the Secretaries, a complete 

 set can be spared, and with the Proceedings from the present 

 time. 



A further extract from the above-mentioned letter was 

 read, relating to an inscription on a tombstone of a deceased 



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