1887.] 



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A letter was read from the Academy of Fine Arts, request- 

 ing the loan of portraits for its approaching exhibition. 



On motion, it was 



Resolved, That the Curators be empowered to loan to the Academy of 

 Fine Arts, such paintings as it may desire for its Exhibition of Historical 

 Portraits, talsing proper guarantees for tlie safe keeping and safe return of 

 the same. 



A paper was presented, through the Secretaries, by Dr. A. 

 0. Stokes, of Trenton, N. J., on some " New Fresh Water Infu- 

 soria." 



Pending nominations Nos. 1156, 1159, 1164, 1169 and 1170 

 were read. 



A communication from the Committee on Library, on the 

 subject of modernizing the Library, was presented, and, on mo- 

 tion of Mr. Law, it was resolved, that the Committee on Fi- 

 nance be requested to incorporate into its estimates for the 

 coming fiscal year an appropriation -of five hundred dollars, to 

 be expended in the purchase of modern works of reference 

 and value. 



On motion of Dr. Euschenberger, the Society ordered that 

 the building of the Society should be kept locked on Septem- 

 ber 16, 1887, to avoid danger to the property of the Society 

 from the vast crowds likely to be assembled in Independence 

 Square to witness the closing exercises of the Centennial Cel- 

 ebration of the Adoption of the Federal Constitution. 



The President reported that he had appointed as the Com- 

 mittee on the Purchase of the Ilumboldt Portrait, Messrs. 

 Philip 0. Garrett, D. G. Brinton and Horace Jayne. 



On motion of Mr. Phillips, the Society requested the Presi- 

 dent to prepare for the Records of the Society a minute that 

 should commemorate the celebration that had taken place in 

 Philadelphia, on September 15, 16, 17, 1887, of the Centennial 

 of the Adoption of the Federal Constitution. 



And the Society was adjourned by the President. 



