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Letters acknowledging the receipt of Proceedings and an- 

 nouncing transmissions, were read. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Eoyal 

 Academies and Societies at St, Petersburgh, Munich, Gcittin- 

 gen, Copenhagen and Edinburgh ; the Society at Marburg ; 

 the Greological Society at Berlin ; Geographical Society at 

 Paris, and Astronomical Society at London ; the Institutes at 

 Salem, Philadelphia, and Baltimore ; the New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania Historical Societies; the State Geologist of 

 New Jersey ; Dr. liuschenberger, Hon. "W. D. Kelley, Mr, C. 

 H. Hunt, Genl, Abbott, and the Public School Commissioners 

 in St. Louis. 



The death of a late member of the Society, Mr. Franklin 

 Peale, of Philadelphia, on Thursday morning, May 5, aged 74, 

 ■was announced by Mr. Eobert Patterson, who, on motion of 

 Mr, Fraley, was appointed to prepare an obituary notice of 

 the deceased. 



The Secretary communicated, as from the author, the sec- 

 ond part of a Memoir on the Geological Position, Characters 

 and Equivalencies of the Marshall Group, by Prof. Alex. 

 AVinchell, Part I. of which was published in the Proceedings, 

 No. 8L 



The Secretary gave the following account of beads from 

 Indian graves on the Susquehanna Piver, now in the posses- 

 sion of Prof. S. S. Haldeman, of Columbia, Pa. 



A bead found in an Indian grave near Bainbridgje, Lancas- 

 ter Co., Pa., in making the Pennsylvania Canal, about the year 

 1832. The bead is spherical, but made out of a section of a 

 cylinder, or group of four concentric cylinders, the outer one 

 blue, the middle one red, between these a thin one of white, 

 and the fourth also white, forming an innermost thin lining 

 to the red and a coating to the siph uncle or string-hole 

 through the centre. The end section of the three inner cylin- 

 ders is star-shaped, or, more properly, corrugated very regu- 

 larly in 13 Avaves, like a watch pinion of 13 cogs. The 

 white shining through the blue produces a banded appear- 

 ance of the snrface of the bead, the bands being alternately 

 deep blue and light blue. No doubt the blue cylinder was 

 corrugated on the outside surface, also, and then pressed or 

 rolled smooth. The diameter of the bead across the striue;- 



