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to establish in the city of Philadelphia, under the auspices of the Society, 

 an Observatory, Astronomical and Physical, either or both, and if so at 

 what cost, on Tvhat site, and what instruments are requsite for such 

 purposes, and at what cost such instruments can be procured. 



The following gentlemen were nominated and on motion 

 appointed to constitute said committee ;^ Mr. Cujler, Prof, 

 Frazer, Prof Henrj, Prof. Kendall, and Mr. Fairman Rogers. 



And the Societ}?- was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting^ December 16th, 1S70. 



De. G. B. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



Present, fourteen members. 



Letters of acknowledgement were received from the Eniden 

 Nat. Hist. Society (77-80), the Buenos Ayres Maseum (78, 79, 

 80), the Soc. Antiquaries, London (82), and the Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 at Newcastle on Tyne (82). 



Letters of envoi were received from the Emden N. H. 

 Society, Oct. 1, and the Bureau of Geological Research of 

 Sweden, Stockholm, May 1st, 1870. 



A printed Circular memorial in behalf of the collections in 

 Paris, threatened by the bombardment, was received from the 

 Provost and professors of Trinity College and the University 

 of Dublin. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Imp. 

 Russian Academy, the Nat. Hist. Soc. at Moscow, the Austrian 

 Geological Ins., Dr. Heidinger of Vienna, the Observatory at 

 Prague, the Societies at Emden and Frankfort, the Societies 

 of Science and Antiquities at Copenhagen, the Swedish 

 Geological Bureau, the R. Lombard Institute, the Institute at 

 Yenice, M. A. de la Rive of Geneva, the London Geographical 

 Soc, the Meteorological Committee of the R.S., and the Editors, 

 of Nature, the Hist. Soc. at Quebec, the Essex Institute, 

 Boston N. H. S., New Jersey Historical Society, Prof. A. M. 



