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Stated Bleeting^ April 5, 1861. 



Present, fourteen members. 



Professor Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters acknowledging the receipt of Transactions and Pro- 

 ceedings were received from the Royal Asiatic Society, dated 

 London, November 17, 1860, the Society of Antiquaries, 

 dated London, March 15, 1861, and the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh, dated January 18, 1861. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Bureau 

 des Ponts et Chaussees, the London Astronomical and Chemi- 

 cal Societies, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Dublin 

 Geological Society, the Boston Sanitary Association, the 

 Buffalo Young Men's Association, the New York Lyceum, 

 the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, the American 

 Colonization Society, Blanchard and Lea, Professor Bache, 

 Mr. Carey Lea of Philadelphia, and M. Du Mesnil-Marigny 

 of Paris. 



Mr. Peale made some remarks to elucidate the manner in 

 which the stone axes of the ancients were secured to their 

 handles, exhibiting a stone mallet brought from the Rocky 

 Mountains, covered, except upon its striking face, with tight- 

 stretched hide sewed up along the handle. 



A letter from M. du Mesnil-Marigny to the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, was read, dated Paris, March 4, 1861, 

 drawing attention to an accompanying pamphlet volume on 

 Political Economy, which letter with the pamphlet was by 

 vote of the Academy presented to the American Philosophical 



