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appointed for the same purpose, in reference to the establishment of a 

 Botanical Garden in Fairmount Park." 



In accordance with the above Eesolution, the following Committee was 

 selected : — 



Prof. William Proctor, Jr., 

 Prof. Robert Bridges, M. D., 

 Prof. John M. Maisch. 

 It was also Eesolved, ' ' That the Secretary be directed to communicate 

 the action of this College to the President of the Park Commissioners, 

 to the Horticultural Society, and to the American Philosophical Society." 

 I have the honor to be 



Yours, respectfully, 



ALFRED B. TAYLOR, 

 Secretary . 

 To Prof. George B. Wood, M. D., 



President of the American Philosophical Society. 



A letter transmitting a donation for the Library, was 

 received from Mr. Abbe, of tlie Cincinnati Observatory. 



Dr. Lea took the Chair, and Prof Cresson described the 

 recent auroras, of one of vv^hich he presented for jrablication 

 in the Proceedings, the following account: — 



An Auroi-al display occurred on the evening of the 24th of October, 

 observed from half-past eight o'clock. A faint Auroral arch was visible 

 to the north, extending from Cor Caroli, which was just setting, neai'ly 

 to Castor, which was just rising, the elevation of the arc being equal to 

 that of star Dubhe, in Ursa Major, which was nearly at its lowest culmi- 

 nation. At the same time, a band, of ten degrees in width, of pink 

 auroral liglit, spanned the heavens, apparently on an arc of a great circle, 

 extending from the northwestern point, where the Northern Crown was 

 setting, to a point in the east, where Bellatrix, in Orion, was just rising, 

 and passing through Menkar, in the head of the Whale, south of Aries, 

 through Pisces and Aquarius, through the Dolphin, through the Eagle, 

 with Altair near the centre of the band, south of Lyra, and through the 

 head of Hercules. The average width of the luminous belt was about 

 ten degrees, its median line corresponding very nearly with the celestial 

 equator. 



Dr. Emerson informed the Society that the earthquake of October 20th, 

 1870, was felt in Canada, the New England States and New York. The 

 strongest manifestations of it were along the St. Lawrence River, and 

 especially on the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the shocks 

 were reported so severe as to occasion some loss of life. In certain 



