Academy of Natural Sciences. Soy 
The officers for the year 1824 are, 
Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer, President. 
hahah M. D. ; Vice-Presidents. 
John Low, Treasurer. 
seee ag lin Corresponding Secretaries. ee 
Lambert Suydam 2 
ae Ait, att, sf Recording sc chietiliaa 
The council, consisting of thirty resident, and twenty 
non-resident members, combine much of the wealth, talent 
and influence of the city and state. From the respectabil- 
8. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phit- 
adelphia.—This Journal continues to be very ably support- 
ed. The 3d volume, containing 480 pages, is completed, 
and the first number of the 4th volume has appeared this 
month, (July, 1824.) A very considerable part of the 
work is devoted to the Animal Kingdom, a portion of na- 
ture until lately much neglected in this country. Two very 
elaborate papers, published in contimuation, are conspicu- 
ous in the several last numbers. Ist. ‘ Descriptions of Co- 
leopterous Insects, collected in the late expedition to the 
Rocky Mountains, performed by order of Mr. Calhoun, 
Secretary of War, under the command of Major Long; by 
Thomas Say, Zoologist to the Expedition: and 2d. 
“Observation on the Nomenclature of Wilson’s Ornitholo- 
zy; by Charles Bonaparte.” 
The following is the list of officers for the year 1824. 
President--William Maclure. 
Vice-Presidents —Zaccheus Collins, George Ord. 
Corresponding Secretary—Reuben Haines. 
Recording Secretary-—William H. Keating. 
Curators—Thomas Say, C. A. Lesueur, J. P. Weth- 
erill, Isaaé Hays, M. D.  ~ 
Treasurer—Jacob Gilliams. 
Labraricn—-Jacob Pierce. 
Ayuditors—W.S. Warder, J. M. Brewer, RB. E. Grit- 
fith, M. D. 
