1865.] 7 



The list of surviving members was read and corrected. 



Pending nominations, Nos. 529 to 533, and new nomina- 

 tion, No. 534, were read. 



Balloting for members then proceeded, and the following 

 were announced by the President, duly elected members. 



L'Abbd Ovide Brunet, Professor of Botany, Laval Univer- 

 sity, Quebec. 



Prof. Goldwin Smith, University of Oxford, England. 



Prof. A. Winchell, Geologist of the State of Michigan, De- 

 troit. 



Mr. Wm. E. Whitman, Attorney-at-law, Philadelphia. 



Prof. Geo. J. Brush, Yale College, New Haven. 



And the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting^ February 3, 1865. 



Present, fourteen members. 

 Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



Letters accepting membership were received from George 

 J. Brush, dated New Haven, January 24, 1865, and from 

 Ovide Brunet, dated Quebec, January 28, 1865; the latter 

 giving the date of the death of Mr. Ross Cuthbert as Sep- 

 tember, 1861, and the former enclosing a photograph of the 

 writer. 



A letter declining the appointment to prepare an obituary 

 notice of Mr. Dallas, was received from Mr. Ingersoll, dated 

 January 23, 1865. On motion, Mr. Ingersoll was excused. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Royal 

 Saxon Society, Prof. Zantedeschi, the Royal Astronomical 

 Society, Mr. E. Tucker, Editor of the Literary Gazette, 

 and Dr. Marcet, of London; the Essex Institute, New Jer- 

 sey Historical Society, Admiral Wilkes, and Mr. Snowdon, 

 of Philadelphia. 



