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of a library, for a committee consistiDg of Messrs. Troost and 

 Shiun was appointed to consider, among other weighty matters, 

 " which are the fittest periodical works to engage in the first in- 

 stance for the accommodation of the society." 



No report seems to have been received from this, the first Library 

 Committee, but under date of March 17 of the same year, a mem- 

 orandum records tliat " Mr. Shinn will accommodate the society 

 with the Mlneralogical Journal of Dr. Bruce ; Mr. Speakman 

 will furnish the National Intelligencer ; Dr. Parmentier, the Aurora 

 and a map of Switzerland; Dr. Mann, the Monthly Magazine for 

 1807. Drs. Troost and Parmentier have engaged for account of 

 the society the Annales de Chymie and the Annales des Arts et de 

 Commerce. Mr. Shinn is commissioned to procure for account of 

 the society the Archives of Useful Knoivledge of Dr. Mears, and 

 the Medical Museum of Drs. Mitchell and Millar. Agreed to pro- 

 cure the Repertory of Arts from London." 



On April 18, " the Secretary makes homage to the Academy of 

 The Bureau, weekly newspaper recently commenced, which he has 

 subscribed for. " A.t the same meeting it was "referred to the 

 Committee to purchase at least one portfolio, for the purpose of 

 depositing extracts from newspapers announcing recent discoveries 

 and extraordinary facts, with a view to have them afterward 

 arranged in a proper book and inquiries instituted thereupon." 

 The Secretary was requested " to procure a report of Prof. Davy 

 of the Loudon Institution's lectures lately delivered on the subject 

 of Zoology." He was also requested " to procure report on Prof. 

 Davy's experiments and conclusions on the subject of the oxymuri- 

 atic acid, and to require report from Dr. Mitchell at time of 

 writing to that gentleman his letter of notification." It was 

 ordered, Mr. Troost seeming to have dropped out, " that Mr. 

 Shinn be requested to make his report on the periodical works 

 eligible for the Academy, and if possible to procure the latest 

 number of Nicholson's Journal.'' 



Then more definitely, on August 15, the Secretary was " re- 

 quired to obtain the following works on science : Nicholson' s Journal 

 from the commencement of the year 1810; a periodical work said 

 to be conducted by Dr. Thompson, of London, from its com- 

 mencement; Repertory of Arts from the beginning of 1810; Mur- 

 ray's Chemistry, last edition; Thompson's Chemistry, edition of 



