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nue, botli east aad west of Woodlands Cemetery; 46th Street, both 

 south and north of Woodland Avenue ; 45th Street, south and north of 

 Kingsessing Avenue, and north of Spruce Street ; Chestnut Street, west 

 of 45th and 47th Streets ; intersection of Pennsylvania and Connect- 

 ing Railroads ; Grirard Avenue, west of 48th Street ; Elm, west of Girard 

 Avenue ; Girard Avenue east of the bridge, ia the Park ; in the Park 

 east of Connecting Railroad bridge over the Reading Railroad ; Jeifer- 

 son and 28th Streets ; Cumberland Street and 15th ; and 12th and Cum- 

 berland Streets ; also east of Reading Railroad bridge over the Schuyl- 

 kill, and around the basin in the East Park. 



The "erratics" are foand at all heights, twenty to one hundred feet 

 above tide, both side? of the Schuylkill. 



Prof. Chase described some indications of Saturn's import- 

 ance in inHuencing the early planetary aggregations of our 

 system when the Sun was in a nebulous condition. He in- 

 troduced an equation between the masses and distances of 

 the four outer planets, which accorded with other present 

 indications of nebular activity in Saturn. 



The Treasurer's annual report was, on motion, postponed, 

 on account of his serious illness. 



Pending nomination No. 791 was read. 



Mr. Price presented the following report on the applica- 

 tion of the funds of the Michaux Legacy : 



Decemher 3, 1875. 

 To THE American Philosophical Society : 



I respectfully make report in relation to the expenditure of the income 

 of the Michaux Fund placed at the disposal of the Fairmount Park 

 Commission. 



The Botanical Committee of the Society, Aubrey H. Smith, Chairman, 

 revised the list of trees proposed to be imported last spring ; and nine 

 hundred and ten trees were imported from James Booth & Sons, Ham- 

 burg, Germany, and arrived and were planted early in May last. They 

 were fine, healthy, well-grown trees, and were generally in good order 

 when received. There were one hundred and forty-five species and 

 varieties of Maple, Horse-Chestnut, Ailantus, Alder, Birch, Horn- 

 beam, Spanish-Chestnut, Catalpa, Beech, Laburnum, Ash, Larch, Pop- 

 lar, Prunus, Pterocarya, Pyrus, Oak, Lorbus, Linden, Willow. 



There are now growing of this and the previous importation by the 

 same Michaux Fund, one thousand one hundred and seventeen trees and 

 shrubs, of two hundred and sixty seven species and varieties. These 

 are all in the nursery, where they will remain until of a size to be planted 

 out in the " Michaux Grove" and elsewhere over the Park. 



