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Pending nominations Nos. 643 to 648 and new nominations 

 649, 650 were read, 



Mr. Lesley was nominated for Librarian by Prof. Cresson, 

 and the Society was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting^ January 21, 1870. 

 Present, seventeen members. 

 Prof. Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Anderson, of Haverford, was introduced and took his 

 seat. 



A letter of acknowledgment was received from the Eussian 

 Observatory (78, 79, 80.) 



A letter from M. Aglave, one of the editors of the Eevue 

 des Cours Scientifiques, No. 17, rue de'l'ecole de Medicine, 

 requesting the Proceedings, was read, and the Secretaries di- 

 rected to place the Eeview on the list of correspondents. 



Donations for the Library were received from M. Zante- 

 deschi, the Paris Greographical, and London Astronomical and 

 Meteorological Societies, the Montreal Natural History So- 

 ciety, New York Lyceum, Philadelphia Journal of Medicine, 

 and Numismatic Society, Mr. Stephen Colwell and Dr. Lea, 

 the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Hayden and Prof. Kirkwood. 



The Committte to which was referred the Paper of Prof. 

 Cope, for insertion at page 122 of the memoir now passing 

 through the press, reported, recommending its publication and 

 insertion at the place designated, and that so nluch of the 

 plate accompanying it as illustrates Megadactylus polyzelus, 

 be engraved and printed as an additional plate of the memoir. 

 On motion, the recommendation of the Committee was adopted 

 and the publication ordered. 



Mr. Lesley referred to the accounts in the newspapers of the 

 special violence of the late tornado at Cave City in Kentucky, 

 and hoped that some accurate record would be made of the 

 exceptional phenomena alluded to therein. 



Mr. Fraley added that a proposition had been made at the 



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