1867.1 339 



Stated Meeting, May 17, 1867. 



Present, seventeen members. 



Judge Sharswood, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read from the Prince Jablonowski Society at 

 Leipsig, March 1, 1867, accompanying a donation; also, from 

 the Academy of Sciences at Paris, September 29, 1866, and 

 from the College of Pharmacy, March 5, 1867, acknowledg- 

 ing the reception of publications. 



Donations for the Library were announced : From the 

 Prince Jablonowski Society at Leipsig ; from the Upper Lau- 

 satian Society at Gdrlitz ; from the Royal Zoological and Bo- 

 tanical Society at Vienna; from the Royal and Imperial 

 Zoological Society at Vienna; from M. Bailli^re, Paris, the 

 Annales des Mines; from Martin Lauzer, Paris; from the 

 Royal Astronomical Society of London ; from Prof. Goeppert, 

 Paris; from the Public Library, Boston; from John Meredith 

 Read, Jr., Albany; from Brantz Mayer, Baltimore; from 

 Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic 

 Industry; from editors of American Journal of Sciences and 

 Art ; from the Mercantile Library, San Francisco ; from 

 Henry Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia; from the Academy Nat- 

 ural Sciences, and the publishers of the Medical News and 

 Library, Philadelphia. 



The decease of Dr. J. T. Goodsir, of Edinburgh, was an- 

 nounced as occurring March 6, 1867, aged 52. Also, of 

 Bishop Stephen Elliott, of South Carolina, on the 22d De- 

 cember, 1866, members of this Society. 



The minutes of the Board of Officers and Council, at their 

 last meeting, were read. 



Pending nominations Nos. 573 to 576, and new nomina- 

 tions Nos. 577 to 579 were read. 



Mr. Price, of the committee on the Michaux Legacy, sub- 

 mitted a report of its condition and a resolution, which was 

 adopted. 



And the Society was adjourned. 



