JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. oo - 
April 27, 1857. 
The President, Dr. B. F. Saumanp, in the chair. 
Letters were read from Silas Bent, Esq., and Hon. E. Lane, 
of Chicago, elected Correspondents; also, a letter from Prof. 
S. F. Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution ; from Lieutenant 
. Warren ; from the Librarian of the Univ. of Vir 
from ‘the Western Acad. of Nat. ee Cin., O.; from fect 
M. F. Maury, Observatory at Wash., D. C. ; from the Masonic 
Coll. stanton. Mo.; from the Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad.; 
from the President of Harvard Coll., Cambridge; from J. a 
Sibley, Librarian of Harv. Coll.; from the Librarian of Yale 
Coll.; from the Librarian of the N. York State Library, sora 
ny; —-severally acknowledging the receipt of the Transactio 
of the Academy. 
The Corresponding Secretary laid upon the table the Pro- 
ceed. of the Bos. Soc. of Nat. History, 1856-7, and the Con- 
stitution te) By-laws of the same, Set from the Society; 
C. of Dart. Coll., 1855, 1856-7, from the Librarian ; 
New On Meteorology, 1826-1 [850—Report of Select Comit- 
tee to visit Charitable Institutions of New York, 1857—Cat. 
of the N. Y. State Library, 2 Vols., 1856—and Seventh Ann. 
ents of t e Univ. ‘of the State of — York, 
ibrarian; List of For. Correspondents of the 
