PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. X. JANUARY, 18G6. No. 75. 



Stated Meeting, January 5, 1866. 



Present, twelve members. 



Vice-President Cresson, in the Chair. 



Letters acknowledging the receipt of publications were re- 

 ceived from the Imperial Institute of France, Paris, Novem- 

 ber 6th, 1865 ; Royal Society, London, October 12th, 1865 ; 

 Geological Society of London, November 8th, 1865; Rad- 

 cliff Observatory, Oxford, September 1st; Natural H. S., 

 Newcastle on T., September 21st, 1865; Dr. John W. Daw- 

 son, Montreal, December 14th, 1865; American Antiquarian 

 Society, December 22d, 1865; Corporation of Harvard Col- 

 lege, December 29th, 1865 ; New York Historical Society, 

 December 28th, 1865 ; New Jersey Historical Society, New- 

 ark, December 21st, 1865 ; Pennsylvania Historical Society, 

 December 28th, 1865 ; Library of Congress, Washington, 

 December 29th, 1865. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Royal, 

 Royal Astronomical, Royal Geographical, and Geological 

 Societies in London ; the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Sci- 

 ence ; the New Hampshire Adjutant-General and Quarter- 

 master-General ; James B. Francis, of New York ; the 

 Franklin Institute, Academy of Natural Sciences, and Penn- 

 sylvania Historical Society, of Philadelphia ; and the United 

 States Naval Observatory and Congressional Library. 



Mr. Fraley announced the death of Col. C. D. Graham, 

 U. S. A., at Boston. 



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