690 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
The matter was referred to the President, with instructions 
to address such letters as he might deem per and advi- 
sable to Prof. Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution, our Representatives in Congress, and other per- 
sonages at Washington, in behalf of the proposed object. 
The President submitted his Annual Report of the prog- 
ress and proceedings of the Academy during the year 1859: 
ANNUAL REPORT. 
Another year, the shed of the existence of our Academy, has passed, and 
in renewing it we may congratulate pha a: that our efforts and results 
within the last year have at least been commensurate with our means. Our 
meetings have been r regularly a atti: our Museum and Library have 
more voluminous than the farted ones, and we trust equally as interest- 
at present 123, and that of me een ik “6 In order to ie sais this de- 
sirable intercourse, we are obliged to ¢ nue our own publications ; but 
if a state of our finances Napa not rhe us to publish every year so 
— we might at least publish occasionally separate articles in 
she 
Besides the addition which our Library has received by pacshousnge it 
has been increased ni private donation and by many valuable pen 1 
uments, for which w a under obligations to the Hon. Trusten Polk an 
eum has sie. ‘been enlarged by liberal donations in nearly all 
its departments thus: ther- 
thnol a received valuable tinge eer from Mr. B. M. Sou 
ton, Mo.; C. H. A. Dall, Calcutta; Dr. MePheeters, St. Louis. 
Mam many, ‘from Chas. P. Pete bce Esq., Dr. E. J. Marsh, an 
a, er m. the 
thology, from Capt. J. Pope, U.S. A., and in oaange TY ’ ye 
my of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. (A great many 0 o tans 
birds have been prepared and elegantly mounted, but we need mor 
to eed them rly 
ogy has lecatved es from Drs. Engelmann, McPheeters, 
and fo Og St. Louis, and Dr. vidoes eler, Perry Co. oe 
Entomology, from Drs. McPhee s, A. Leite and 0 sented 
“a rof. E. W. Hilgard, ae Geologist of Missiseippl, eet 
a collection of about three ondsed plants from the State of Mis 
aleontology and Geology. Donations were made in this depar 
0 cPheeters, Engelmann, Wislizenus, Maj. Clark 1 Scien- 
Esq., and in exchange we received from the Academy of Na dd of 
rs of Philadelphia sin valuable fobatis’ for Se iaamadatt a 
nyx Jeffersonii, Dinornis giganteus, » Eee ‘ 
pliner “ee en enriched by sconces from Drs. ietinae 
ts ey dain Cus Soulard, Esq., J. Harrison, Esq., Dr 
anta , an rk. 
Mala The ke T. H. Newton presented us specimens ee 
nama and the West Indies. Dr. M. M. Pallen also made some ® 
