Stated Meeting^ February 5, 1869. 



Present, fifteen members. 



Dr. George B. Wood, President, in the Cliair. 



Mr. Binney, Gen. Tjndale and Mr. Lyman, new members, 

 took their seats. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Acade- 

 my at Amsterdam, Eoyal Library at the Hague, Batavian 

 Society at Potterdam, Zot)logical and Statistical Societies at 

 London, Leeds Philosophical Society, American Statistical 

 Society, Massachusetts and New Jersej^ Historical Societies, 

 Boston City Library, Yale College, Peabody Institute, and 

 also from the Philadelphia College of Physicians, returning 

 thanks for a donation of duplicate pamphlets. 



Letters of envoi were received from the Geog. Soc, Vienna, 

 June 30 ; Holl. Soc, Harlem, May 20 ; Acad., Amsterdam, 

 Sep. 2; Central Bureau of Statistics, Sweden, Nov. 25, 1868. 



Donations for the Library were received from Prof. Zante- 

 deschi ; the Geographical Societies of St. Petersburg, Vienna 

 and London ; Academies and Societies of Amsterdam, Rot- 

 terdam, Harlem and Niirnburg; Antiquarian Societies at 

 Copenhagen and London ; Central Bureau at Stockholm ; 

 Astronomical and Geoloe-ical Societies at London ; Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. and Pub. Lib., Boston ; Amer. Oriental Society ; Silli- 

 man's Journal; Medical News; Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadel- 

 phia ; Dr. Carson ; Wisconsin Historical Society ; and Fen- 

 dalhs executors at Washington. 



The Librarian communicated for publication in the Pro- 

 ceedings a vertical section of the coal measures of the Georges 

 Creek portion of the Cumberland Basin, made some years 

 ago, with great care, by the State Chemist and Geologist of 

 Maryland, Mr. Philip T. Tyson of Baltimore. On motion it 

 was referred to the Secretaries with power to publish. 



