15 

 Stated Meetmg April, M, 1874. 



Present, 14 members. 

 Mr. Eli K. Price in the Chair. 



Mr. Snowden, a recently elected member, was presented 

 to the presiding officer, and took his seat. 



A letter was received from Samuel Y. Summers, M.D., 

 dated New Orleans, March 26th, 1874. 



A letter was received from Erastus W. Everson, Sec. and 

 Lib. Un. S. Carolina, acknowledging receipt of Proc. N'o. 91. 



A lithographed letter was received from Gr. Beck,Munchen, 

 March 22d, respecting Gemminger and Harold's Cat, Coleop- 

 teorum. 



A letter inviting discussion of J. R. Meyer's doctrine of 

 heat applied to gravity, at the ensuing meeting of the D, IN". 

 Yersammlung, was received from five commissioners ap- 

 pointed at the last meeting, dated Breslau, March 6th, 1874. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Societies 

 at Erlangen and St. Gall ; the E.. Acad, at Brussels ; Paris 

 Geog. Soc. and Revue Politique ; London Ast. Soc. and 

 CobdenClub; Essex Institute; Silliman's Journal; Prof. W. 

 P. Trowbridge ; IsTew England Soc, N. Y. ; Penn Monthly ; 

 Am. Jour. Pharmacy; Dr. P. J. Levis; Mr. Isaac Lea; Mc- 

 Calla & Stavely ; Maryland Hist. Society ; U. S. Dep. of the 

 Interior ; University of S. Carolina ; Minnesota Academy ; 

 ]Sr. S. ; and Mercantile Lib. Ass., San Francisco. 



The Committee to which was referred the memoir of Dr. 

 Allen on Art Forms, reported in favor of its publication in 

 the Transactions. 



On motion, the paper was referred to the Publication 

 Committee to report on the propriety of publishing it with 

 its numerous illustrations. 



The death of Mr. Joseph Harrison in Philadelphia, March 

 27, aged 64, was announced by the Secretary, and on motion, 

 Mr. Coleman Sellers was appointed to prepare an obituary 

 notice of the deceased. 



