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fees) has been paid into the treasury, and the remaining three 

 thousand dollars has been properly secured. 



The Committee of Conference appointed to confer with a 

 committee of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia, was on motion discharged from further consideration of 

 the subject, inasmuch as the committee of the Academy had 

 been previously discharged. 



On motion of Dr. Le Conte the Secretaries were authorized 

 to procure a suitable album for preserving the photographs 

 of the members. 



And the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, May 18, 1866. 



Present, sixteen members. 



Prof. Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A letter accepting membership was received from Dr. 

 Pliny Earle, dated Northampton, May 5th, 1866. 



Letters of invoice were received from the Holland Society 

 at Haarlem, and Prof. J. D. Whitney, San Francisco, April 

 16th, 1866. 



Photographs of Thomas U. Walter, Dr. John Morgan, and 

 Mr. Robert Briggs, were presented for insertion in the Album. 

 The photograph of Dr. Morgan was from J. R. Lambden's 

 copy of a portrait by Angelica Kauffmann. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Geo. 

 graphical Societies at St. Petersburg and Paris, the Academy 

 at Berlin, Prof. Zantedeschi, the Observatory of San Fer- 

 nando, the Society of Sciences at Haarlem, the Boston 

 Natural History Society, the Editors of the American 

 Journal of Science, the Franklin Institute, Smithsonian 

 Institution, Prof. J. C. Cresson, Prof. J. D. Whitney, and 

 various booksellers. 



A communication was offered for publication in the Trans- 

 actions, entitled "On Fucoids in the Coal," by Leo Lesque- 



