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[Jan 2, 



with directions to farmers for applying it to their crops, and observations 

 which cannot fail to impart much useful practical information." 



[There is conclusive evidence that this pamphlet was written by Dr. 

 Emerson.] 



"Cotton in the Middle States; with Directions for its Easy Culture." By 

 G. Emerson, M.D. Author of the "Farmer's and Planter's Encyclope- 

 dia," Philadelphia, 1862. 



" Land Drainage." An address delivered before the Farmer's Club of 

 Kent County, Del., at Dover, January, 1872. By G. Emerson, M.D., of 

 Philadelphia. [Illustrated by a topographical sketch map of Kent county, 

 Del.] 



"The Organization of Labor, in accordance with Custom and the Law 

 of the Decalogue ; with a summary of comparative observations upon 

 good and evil in the regime of labor, the causes of evil existing in the 

 present time, and the means required to effect reform ; with objections 

 and answers, difficulties and solutions." By F. Le Play, Senator (of 

 France), Inspector-General of Mines, Commissioner-General to the Uni- 

 versal Exposition (in Paris), of 1855, 1862 and 1867. Author of Des 

 Ouvriers Europeens and La Reforme Sociale. 



"Les politiques veulent en un etat bien rggle, plus des maitres des arts 

 mechaniques, que de maitres des arts libereaux." Richelieu (Testament 

 Polito). 



Translated by Gouvemeur Emerson, M.D., member of the American 

 Philosophical Society. From the French of the second revised and cor- 

 rected edition published at Tours, in 1870. Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfln- 

 ger, Philadelphia, 1872. 12mo, pp. 417. 



Stated Meeting, Januarg #, 1891. 



Present, 17 members. 

 Mr. DUDLEY in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted and accessions to the Library 

 were announced. 



A letter was received from Mr. L. Yossion, dated Philadel- 

 phia, December 20, 1890, accepting membership. 



A circular was received in regard to the celebration of the 

 seventieth birthday of Prof. Rudolph Virchow, from the Com- 

 mittee on the same in Berlin. 



