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MISCELLANIES. 



DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 



1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society * January 

 5, 1838. — The i-esult of the annual election for officers held this day, 

 was reported by the judges and clerks as follows : — 



President. — Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL. D. 



Vice Presidents. — Nathaniel Chapman, M. D., Joseph Hopkinson, 

 LL. D., Robert M. Patterson, M. D. 



Secretaries. — Franklin Bache, M. D., John K. Kane, Alexander 

 D. Bache, LL. D., J. Francis Fisher. 



Counsellors for three years. — Robert Hare, M. D., William Mere- 

 dith, William Hembel, Jun., Charles D. Meigs, M. D. 



Curators. — Isaac Lea, Isaac Hays, M. D., Franklin Peale. 



Treasurer. — -John Vaughan. 



Mr. Lea read a paper in continuation of his memoir on fresh water 

 and land shells, which was referred. 



January 19, 1838. — Mr. Lea read a paper in further continuation 

 of his memoir on fresh water and land shells, which was referred. 



Mr. Walker presented to the notice of the Society, the drawings of 

 a self-registering anemometer and rain gauge invented by Mr. Fol- 

 lett Osier, of Birmingham, England, of which he explained the char- 

 acter and advantages. 



The Society elected John Vaughan, librarian. 



Mr. Vaughan announced the death of Joshua Humphreys, a mem- 

 ber of the Society, aged 86. 



The following candidates were elected members : — 



Capt, Andrew Talcott, late of the U. S. Engineers. 



Thomas W. Griffith, Esq., of Baltimore. 



Charles G. B. Daubeny, M. D., of the Univ. of Oxford. 



Henry Reed, Esq., of the University of Pennsylvania. 



William Norris, of Philadelphia County. 



William Sullivan, Esq., of Boston. 



February 2, 1838. — A letter was read from John K. Townsend, 

 dated January 20th, 1838, announcing the transmission of the Indian 

 Vocabularies collected for the Society, and of certain shells and geo- 

 logical specimens, selected for its use by Mr. Peale. 



A communication from the late Joshua Humphreys, Esq., dated 

 December 23d, 1837, was read, on the subject of the early history of 



* We were ignorant until recently, that the American Philosophical Society 

 published reports of their doings. Had these reports been earlier transmitted, they 

 would have been sooner noticed. — Eds. 



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