660 



Occasional Business. Page. 



Board ot Officers and Council. 



Resolutions on tlie Award of a Magellanic Premium 192 



Action in regard to the old Newspapers belonging to the Society . . 286 

 Resolution to Celebrate the Birthday of Franklin ; and Com- 

 mittee appointed 650, 651 



Publication Committee. 



Report on 14 plates of Prof. S. S. Haldeman's Memoir in the 



Transactions 83, 195 



Authorized to issue the Articles published in the Society sepa- 

 rately or together, at their discretion 198, 287 



Report in favor of Exchanges with the Mus^e Guimet, Lyons .... 352 

 Appropriation for an Illustration for Mr. Ashburner's Paper on Oil Lands . . 3 



Michatix Legacy Committee Report 3, 286 



Quarterly Interest 27, 83, 160, 276, 405, 523 



Letter from Drexel, Harjis & Co., Paris Ill 



New Transcription called for 160 



Appropriation for Prof. Rothrock's Lectures 3 



Copy of the Portrait of Michaux 3, 27, 62, 299 



Photographs taken from the Portrait 74 



Magellanic Premium. 



Committee Report 159 



Committee on Magellanic Prize Essay 153 



Committee Report on Communication X. y. Z 195 



Motion in regard to Award of Premium 161 



Resolutions on the Presentation of Medals to Notable Discoverers, 196 

 Centennial Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Society. Publication of 



Proceedings .5 



Centennial Celebration ot the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 



Boston. Delegates appointed, &c 3, 4, 14, 27, 75 



Use of the Hall tendered to the American Philological Association 15 



Report ot the Librarian on the Early Minutes of the Society, &c 648, 651 



Obituary Notice of Dr. Geo. B. Wood. 1000 Extra Copies ordered 157 



Portrait of Dr. Geo. B. Wood ordered to be made for the Society . 27 



Martin's Portrait of Franklin. The making of a copy allowed 157 



Curators authorized to deposit the Stone Relics, presented by Pi"of. Halde- 



man to the Society, in the Academy of Natural Sciences 194 



MSS. belonging to the Society ordered to be placed in the custody of the Fi- 

 delity Trust and Safe Deposit Company 567 



Deposit of Prof. J. F. Frazer's Portrait 522 



Recommendation of the Society that J. E. Hilgard be appointed Superin- 

 tendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey of the U. S 498 



Permission granted to Major Jed. Hotchkiss to use a wood-cut 436 



Permission granted to Prot. Richards to borrow three volumes of Bouillon, 438 

 Secretary authorized to furnish Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., with an Introduc- 

 tory Letter to Foreign Correspondents 438 



Thanks of the Society otfered to Mr. D. S. Holman 404 



Thanks of the Society offered to Lieut. Com. Gorringe 404 



No. 105 of the Proceedings exhibited 16 



Change in the By-Laws. Resolutions 192, 195 



Special Donations. 



Portrait ot M. Francjois Andr6 Michaux 2 



Box of Indian Flints 349 



A copy of the Original Photograph of the Nebula iu Orion 286 



Two pieces of Slag from the site of the earliest Iron Furnace in Virginia . . 197 



A Certificate of Membership of John Lukens 408 



Piece of the Cog-wheel of the old Independence Hall Clock ,83 



