362 American Geological Society. 



state — these and a number of other small works put in lo 

 fill the trunk.* 



In Mr. Maclure's donation, there are more than 1100 fine 

 plates without reckoning those in the Journal de Physique, 

 and in the smaller works, which Would probably amount to 

 two or three hundred more. 



This gentleman's liberality to purposes of science and hu- 

 manity, has been too often, and too munificently experien- 

 ced in this country to demand any eulogium from us. It is 

 rare that affluence, liberality, and the possession and the love 

 of science, unite so signally in the same individual. f 



V. Count Bournon's Treatise on Mineralogy or rather, 

 that part of it which relates to the Carbonat of lime, in 3 

 vols, large quarto with 72 plates, presented by Mr. Wil- 

 liam C WooLSEY of New-York. 



The society directed a committee to procure cases with 

 glass fronts for the reception of the above books and of such 

 as may hereafter be presented to the society. They also 

 ordered that the name of the society and that of the donors 

 of the books should be stamped upon them in gold letters. 



Since the meeting of the society, Horace H. Hayden, 

 Esq. of Baltimore has presented to the society a copy of 

 his geological essays. [See p. 47 of this volume.] 



P. S. — A box of specimens for the society has been re- 

 ifeeived from James Pierce, Esq. — this box has not yet been 

 opened. 



A box is announced as being on its way from Profes- 

 sor Dewey. This is the second from this gentleman. 



^ Mr. Maclure, in a letter to one of the officers of the Geological Society, 

 remarks that the reason why the collection of books is of so mixed <i nature, 

 is, that being packed at Paris along with the whole of his library, they were 

 not assorted, but were put up indiscriminately, and forwarded to Havrej 

 whence this trunk was ordered to be sent to the American Geological So- 

 ciety. Its members will consider themselves fortunate that they are thus 

 fortuitously put into possession of such interesting and rare volumes. 



t This remark as respects the present case, will be well understood in 

 Philadelphia, and especially in the academy of iVatural Sciences. 



