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Meteorological Committee ; the Boston Natural History 

 Society, Industrial Aid Society, and the Rev. Jas. F. Clarke ; 

 the 'New York Historical Society and American Chemist ; 

 the Mayor of Philadelphia, Franklin Institute, Journal of 

 Pharmacy, Medical News and Journal ; the Historical Society 

 of New Jersey ; and the Engineer Department of the United 

 States Army. 



A letter heing read from Judge Clark Hare declining to 

 prepare an obituary notice of Horace Binney, and proffer- 

 ing aid to any one preparing such a notice, it was, on motion 

 of Mr. E. K. Price, 



JResolved, That the Society concur with the Philadelphia 

 Bar in requesting Judge Wm. Strong to prepare an obituary 

 notice of the late Horace Binney. 



On motion, Mr. Edward Hopper was requested to prepare 

 an obituar}^ notice of Mr. Whitman. 



Prof. Chase communicated an additional co-ordination of 

 the ratio of heat under constant pressure to heat under con- 

 stant volume. 



Mr. Lesley gave a preliminary notice of the recent discov- 

 ery by Mr. Charles E. Hall, of sub-angular blocks of large 

 size, lying on the surface and in gravel, at the new cutting 

 of Locust Street in West Philadelphia beyond Forty-fourth 

 Street. Some of these blocks seem to be from the outcrops 

 of the Laurentian gneiss at Reading or Easton ; others of 

 Oneida Conglomerate from the Delaware or Schuylkill water- 

 gaps, 70 miles distance ; and one was afterwards found by 

 Mr. J. H. Harden of the University of Pennsylvania, carry- 

 ing hundreds of fossil shells, from the lowest Devonian out- 

 crops a few miles still further north. 



Mr. Lesley said that Prof. Houpt, of the University, had 

 kindly promised to survey the locality so as to place all the 

 data on record, before the destruction of the stones by the 

 rapid improvements of that part of the city area, and when 

 this is done a further report would be made to the Society. 



If we are to look on these blocks as moraine, it would but 

 extend the glacial phenomena recently noticed in and in 



