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ascertain the views of the S. U. B., as to permitting the pub- 

 lication of the MSS. by the A. P. S. 

 After which the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, March 2, 1866. 



Present, twenty-three members. 



Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



A letter accepting membership was received from Mr. T. 

 S. Blair, of Pittsburg, dated February 21st, 1866. 



A letter of envoi was received from the Royal Academy, 

 dated Amsterdam, June 26th, 1865. 



A letter was received from the Secretary of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Historical Society, December 28th, 1865, requesting 

 duplicates to supply deficiencies in the list of publications of 

 the American Philosophical Society in the Library of the 

 Pennsylvania Historical Society. On motion of Professor 

 Cresson, the Secretaries were instructed to correspond for 

 further information. 



A letter was received from Dr. Le Conte, chairman of a 

 "Committee of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, appointed to confer with committees that may be ap- 

 pointed by other learned societies in Philadelphia, who may 

 desire to co-operate in the erection of a building to receive the 

 libraries and collections of the participating societies," dated 

 March 1st, 1865. 



Donations for the Library were reported from the Royal 

 Academy at Amsterdam ; the Geographical Societies at St. 

 Petersburg and Paris ; the Bureau of Mines ; Dr. Von 

 Martins ; Prof. W. R. Ware, of Boston ; the Harvard 

 Alumni ; the Boston Natural History Society ; the Ncav 

 York Lyceum of Natural History ; the Franklin Institute, 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Mercantile Library, and In- 

 stitution for the Blind, at Philadelphia ; and the University 

 of Michigan. 



Two communications on Terrestrial Physics were read. 



