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Stated Meeting, May 1st, 1874. 



Present, 17 members. 



Vice-President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Letters accepting membership were received from Dr. W. 

 Camac, dated Philadelphia, April 30th ; from Mr. Frank 

 Thomson, dated Altoona, April 28th ; from Prof. C. A. 

 Young, dated Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., April 

 22d ; from Mr. Raphael Pumpelly, dated Newburg, N.Y., 

 April 22d. 



A letter announcing the death of his father was received 

 from M. C. Quetelet, dated Brussels, April 2d, 1874. 



A letter, dated 12 Queen Victoria street, London, E. C, 

 April 14th, was received from Mr. Fairman, Editor of the 

 Eastern Echo. 



A letter from Mr. R. Patterson requested the members of 

 the Society to inspect his copy of Mrs. Peale's " Memorial 

 Volume," of which only twenty- five copies had been printed 

 for private distribution. The folio which lay upon the 

 table contained 81 plates, representing 1,153 specimens of 

 relics of the Stone Age, found in Europe and America, and 

 collected and mounted in the cabinet of the late Mr. Frank- 

 lin Peale, of Philadelphia, a member of the Society. These 

 plates are all photograjDhs, described in a catalogue pre- 

 faced to the volume. As Mrs. Peale has declared her inten- 

 tion to present, the cabinet itself to the American Philo- 

 sophical Society, no coj)y of the volume is reserved for the 

 the Library. 



A letter requesting the use of books was received from 

 Mr. Blasiua, and, on motion of Mr. Whitman, the Librarian 

 was authorized to loan such books on Meteorology as Mr. 

 Blasius needed for his investigations, taking proper receipts 

 for their safe return. 



Donations for the Library were reported from the Acad- 

 emies at Berlin and Brussels ; the Annales des Mines and 

 Revue Politique ; the Royal and R. Astronomical Societies ; 



