290 
dollars ($1000), being the amount of City Loan belonging to the Society, 
falling due January 1, 1878. 
Resolwed, That the Treasurer be authorized to invest the proceeds of said 
joan under the direction of the Committee on Finance. 
And the meeting was adjourned. 
Stated Meeting, Jan. 18, 1878. 
Present, 15 members. 
Vice-President, Mr. E. K. Prices, in the Chair. 
Dr. T. B. Reid, a lately elected member, was introduced 
to the presiding officer and took his seat. 
A letter of envoy was received from the Royal Observa- 
tory, Greenwich, London, 8. E., Dec. 27, 1877. 
A letter requesting the continuance of exchanges and the 
completion of a set of Transactions A. P. 8. was received 
from the Linnean Society of Bordeaux, dated Dec. 30, 1877. 
Donations for the Library were received from the Ed. 
Revue Politique; M. Melsens; the R. Belgian Academy ; 
Ed. Nature: Leeds Phil. and Lit. Society; Canadian Nat- 
uralist; Cornell University; Philadelphia Academy of 
Natural Sciences; Pharmaceutical Association; Franklin 
Institute ; Penn Monthly; Medical News; American Jour- 
nal Medical Sciences; Prof. E. D. Cope; Mr. Henry Philips, 
Jr.; Mr. Lorin Blodget ; Ed. Robinson’s Epitome of Litera- 
ture; Bureau of Education and Engineer Department, 
Washington; Ed. Western Inventor, Cincinnati; and Min- 
isterio de Fomento, Mexico. 
The death of Benjamin Hallowell, of Sandy Springs, Md., 
and also 
The death of Thos. F. Betton, of Germantown, was re- 
ported on the occasion of the stated annual reading of the 
list of the surviving members of the Society. 
