PROCEEDINGS 



AMEMCAINT PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. V. MAY— DECEMBER, 1848. No. 41. 



Stated Meeting, May 5. 



Present, thirteen members. 



Dr. Franklin Bache, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Miers Fisher Longstreth, a newly elected member, was 

 presented to the presiding officer, and took his seat. 



Letters were received and read: — 



From the Hon. R. C. Grier, dated Philadelphia, 22d April, 

 1848 — Professor Charles Picot, dated Philadelphia, 22d April, 

 1848 — Professor John Reed, dated Carlisle, 23d April, 1848 — 

 Alexander H. Stevens, M.D., dated New York, 24th April, 

 1848— Samuel F. B. Morse, Esq., dated New York, 24th 

 April, 1848 — Hon. John N. Conyngham, dated Wilkesbarre, 

 25th April, 1848 — A. Calderon de la Barca, dated Washing- 

 ton, 27th April, 1848 — Prof. Simon Greenleaf, dated Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., 27th April, 1848, respectively acknowledging 

 the receipt of notice of their election as members of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, relative to Astronomical 

 Observations; made to the House of Representatives of the United 

 States, April 13, 1848. — From the Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll. 



Another copy of the same. — From the Hon. George P. Marsh. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, 

 and Geology. Second Series. Vol. I. No. 4. April, 1848. — 

 From Sir William Jardine, Bart. 



African Repository and Colonial Journal. Vol. XXIV. No. 5. 

 May, 1848. — From the American Colonization Society. 

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