106 [May 5. 



A photograph of Prince Maximilian, of Wied, was pre- 

 sented by Mr. Isaac Lea, for the Album. 



The Library Committee made the following report through 

 it chairman. Dr. Bell : 



"At a special meeting of the Committee, May 5, 1865, the Li- 

 brarian reported the second part of the Catalogue ready to go into 

 the printer's hands, and made a statement of moneys already ex- 

 pended, and gave an estimate of the probable cost, at say $2.00 per 

 page, for one hundred and fifty pages, more or less. On motion of 

 Mr. Price, the Committee recommended to the favorable consideration 

 of the Society the printing of Part II, consisting of Class V, that 

 of the Historical Sciences. On motion of Dr. Coates, Pawson & 

 Nicholson's bill, April 20, 1865, for binding, §27, 20, was approved. 

 The Librarian having presented a file of the Tribune, dating from 

 the beginning of the Rebellion, as a donation to the Library, he was 

 authorized to have it bound." 



On motion of Dr. Hays, seconded by Mr. Lea, the ques- 

 tion of postponing the printing of this second part of the 

 Catalogue, in view of the probable reduction of prices, was 

 referred to the Library Committee, with power to take order 

 on the subject of their report. 



Mr. Trego exhibited a copy of a very small tract, entitled 

 "John Gordon's Mathematical Traverse Table, &c. Printed 

 in the year 1758, and sold by Mr. Dunlap, in Philadelphia ; 

 Mr. G. Noel, in New York ; Mr. B. Mecom, in Boston, and 

 by the author," and said that it was probably the first edition 

 of Gordon's method of land surveying, and of traverse tables, 

 &c., after the invention of what is known in all the books as 

 " the Pennsylvania method" of calculating areas by differ- 

 ences of latitude and departure. 



Pending nomination No. 540 was read. 



And the Society was adjourned. 



