^P\/L [January. 



Mr. Marsh, Treasurer of the Society's Building Fund, read 

 a statement of the present condition of said Fund. 



On motion, the Secretaries were authorized to call to their 

 assistance such members of the Society, not exceeding four 

 in number, as they shall deem best qualified to aid them in 

 preparing an account of the labors of the Society in the pro- 

 motion of science. 



The Transactions of the Society from vol. xi. were ordered 

 to be sent to Yale College ; and the Transactions and Pro- 

 ceedings, so far as practicable, were ordered to be presented 

 to the Peabody Institute, at Baltimore. 



And the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, January 17, 1868. 



Present, fourteen members. 



Judge Sharswood, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A letter was read from the Zoological Society of London, 

 dated November 15, 1867, acknowledging the receipt of No. 

 76 of the Proceedings of this Society. 



Donations for the Library were announced ; from the Ne- 

 therlands Government ; from the Royal Prussian Academy of 

 Sciences at Berlin ; from Societies — the London Zoological, 

 the Royal Dublin, the Geographical, of Paris, the Boston 

 Natural History and New Jersey Historical ; from the Bos- 

 ton Public Library ; from the Library of Congress, at Wash- 

 ington ; from the United States Naval Observatory ; from 

 Prof. Jeffries Wyman, and from the publishers of the Ameri- 

 can Journal of Pharmacy, the American Journal of Medical 

 Sciences, and Lippincott's Magazine. 



The decease of the following named members was an- 

 nounced : Col. Stephen Long ; Rt. Rev. W. H. Delancey, 

 which event occurred April 3, 1865, aged 68 years ; and 

 Prof. A. P. Callisen, of Copenhagen. 



Mr. J. P. Lesley was elected Librarian for the ensuing 

 year. 



