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PROCEEDINGS OF 



[May, 



Stated Meeting, May 10, 1841. 



Present, forty-one Members. 



Peter Force, Vice-President, in the Cliair. 



Tiie follovvinii donations were received : 



For the Cabinet. 

 Collection of Marine Plants, from the Coast of Rhode-Island, made 



and preserved by Mrs. Parker, in September, 1827. — From Gen. 



D. Parker. 

 Silver Coins and Minerals. — From Mr. Kervand. 

 Three boxes Chinese Insects. — Fro7n Commodore Ballard, U. S. A. 



For the Lihrarrj. 



Two Lithographic copies of a Map of the World, from Ptolemy's 

 Geography, published at Rome in 1508. — From F. R. Hassler. 



Constitution and Plan of Education for the Girard College for Or- 

 phans, with an introductory Report laid before the Board of Trus- 

 tees, by Dr. F. Lieber; Philadelphia, 1834. — Frojn the Author. 



Remarks on the Relation between Education and Crime ; by the 

 same; Philadelphia, 1835. — From the Author. 



History and Political Economy as necessary branches of superior 

 Education in Free States; by the same; Columbia, South-Caro- 

 lina, 1836. — From the Author. 



Popular Essay on subjects of Penal Law, and on uninterrupted soli- 

 tary Confinement at Labor, fcc; by the same; Philadelphia, 

 18.38. — From the Author. 



On the Penitentiary System; by the same; 1839. — From the Au- 

 thor. 



On International Copy-right, 1840; by the same. — From the Author. 



Report on the Geology of the State of New- York, 1840. — From 

 W. W. Mather. 



Eight volumes of the Naturalist's Library, by Sir William Jardine. — 

 °From W. G. Cranch. 



Numismatique du Moyen Age, he, par Joachim Lelewel, 2 vols. 

 8vo., and an Alias.— From Mr. Kallussowski, H^cst River, Md. 



