PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. X. JANUAEY, 1868. No. 



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Stated Meeting, January 3, 1868. 



Present, twenty members. 



Mr. I. Lea, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Henry C. Lea, a recently elected member, was intro- 

 duced and took his seat. 



Letters were read from the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 

 at Vienna, dated April 1, and July 11, 1867 ; from the New 

 York State Library, Albany, September 1, 1866 ; from the 

 Natural History Society, at Emden, October 9, 1867 ; sever- 

 ally acknowledging the receipt of publications of this Society ; 

 also from Henry Barnard, Commissioner of Education, dated 

 Washington, D. C, December 17, 1867, requesting to be 

 favored with a summary of what the Society, by itself or 

 through its members, has contributed to the progress of 

 science, to be printed in an account of the institutions of 

 science ; from J. E. Hillgard, Assistant in charge of Coast 

 Survey Office, December 13, 1867; from Prof. Zantedeschi, 

 Padua, November 28, 1867. 



Donations for the Library were announced from Societies: 

 the Royal Physico-Economical, of Konigsburg ; the German 

 Geological, of Berlin ; the Imperial Geological, at Vienna, and 

 the London Geological ; from the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences at Vienna ; the Editors of the Nautical Almanac, 

 London ; from the American Pharmaceutical Association ; 



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