lyt) [Dec. 17, 



The other three resolutions recommended to the con- 

 sideration of the Society were on request again postponed to 

 allow time for the members of the Society to become better 

 acquainted with their tenor. 



1. Resolved, That the members of the Society be invited to seud to the 

 Secretaries the names of notable discoverers in any branch of science, or 

 the fine or useful arts, with the reasons for bestowal of medals for their 

 discoveries. 



3. Resolved, That such names and recommendations be placed for consid- 

 eration in the hands of the President to report to the Society his verdict in 

 favor of one or more of them if proper. 



3. Resolved, That, in case no veto is placed by the Society on such ver- 

 dict, there shall be a presentation of medals to the persons recommended by 

 the President at a time and in a manner to be arranged by him. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, Dec. 17, 1880. 



Present, 10 members. 



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



Mr. J. B. Townsend accepted by letter his appointment to 

 prepare an obituary notice of the late Henry Wharton. 



A letter respecting duplicates was received from H. B. 

 Dawson, Morrisania, N. Y. 



A circular was received from the Peabody Academy of 

 Science, at Salem, Mass. . 



Donations for the Library were received from the Asiatic 

 Society of Japan ; the Berlin Academy ; the Yerein fiir 

 Beiorderung des Gewerbfleisses, Berlin ; Zoologischer An- 

 zeiger, Leipsig ; Naturhistorisches Yerein, Bonn; Revue 

 Politique, Paris ; Revista Euskara, Pamplona ; ISTature, the 

 ITautical Almanac Office, and Dr. C. Wm. Siemans, Lon- 

 don ; R. Dublin Society ; Yale College, and the American 

 Journal, iTew Haven; Franklin Institute, Commissioners of 

 the New Public Buildings, and Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., 

 Philadelphia ; H[on. Lane S. Hart, State Printer, Harris- 

 burg ; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore ; U. S. Geo- 



