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and the following named persons were declared to be duly 

 elected members of the Society: 



John Lothrop Motle}^, 



Don Pasqual de Gayangos, of Madrid, 



John Curwen, M.D., of Harrisburg, 



Charles Des Moulins, of Bordeaux, 



Thomas Sterry Hunt, of Montreal. 

 And the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, May 3, 1861. 



Present, five members. 



Judge Sharswood, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters acknowledging the receipt of the Proceedings were 

 received from the Massachusetts Historical Society, dated 

 March 15, 1861, and from the Boston Public Library, dated 

 February 19, 1861 ; and of both Proceedings and Transac- 

 tions from the Royal Geographical Society, dated January 10, 

 1861, from the Imperial Academy, dated Vienna, December 

 18, 1860, and from the Royal Danish Society, dated Copen- 

 hagen, June 1, 1860. 



Xetters announcing donations to the Society were received 

 from the Royal Academy, dated Stockholm, November 18, 

 1860, from the Royal Danish Society, dated Copenhagen, 

 June 1, 1860, from the Imperial Academy, dated Vienna, De- 

 cember 28, 1860, and from the Royal Geographical Society, 

 dated London, January 18, 1861. 



A letter was received from Dr. Robert Caspary, Professor 

 of Botany at the University of Konigsberg, and Librarian of 

 the Konigliche Physicalisch-okonomische Gesellschaft at that 

 place, in the name of the Council of that Society, notifying 

 the Secretaries of the transmission of Part I, Vol. I, of 

 their publications, and asking in exchange those of the Ameri- 

 can Philosophical Society. 



A letter was received from W. Cois, in behalf of the Natur- 



