Reports of Committees: Second Session of Twenty-ninth Congress. 



Washington, 1846-7. 8vo. 

 In all Ten Volumes. — From the Hon. the Secretary of State. 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Vol. III. No. 11. September and October, 1847. — From the 



Academy. 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY BY PURCHASE. 



London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, and Journal 

 of Science. Third Series. No. 209. November, 1847. 8vo. 



Astronomische Nachrichten. No. 612 to 615. Altona, Sept. 30 to 

 Oct. 30, 1847. 4to. 



The Committee on the communication of Mr. J. M. Gilliss, 

 U. S. N., dated 22d October, 1847, made a report, recom- 

 mending the adoption of the following resolutions: — 



Resolved, That the proposed method of Dr. Gerling, of Marburg, 

 for determining the solar parallax, by observations of the planet Ve- 

 nus when stationary and at the conjunctions, and the plan of Lieut. 

 Gilliss for its accomplishment, by means of similar observations at 

 the Naval Observatory at Washington, and in South America, would, 

 if successfully carried out under the direction of the Navy Depart- 

 ment, furnish valuable astronomical data, and confer honour upon 

 our country. 



Resolved, therefore, that this Society do hereby commend the pro- 

 posed plan to the favour and adoption of the present distinguished 

 head of that department, or, if necessary, to the Congress of the 

 United States; and that in testimony of the opinion of this Society 

 upon this subject, an official copy of these proceedings be transmitted 

 to the Secretary of the Navy. 



The resolutions v^ere adopted by the Society. 



Mr. Frazer, Reporter, presented a letter from Prof. Halde- 

 man, dated Columbia, 22d November, 1847, enclosing a list of 

 additions and amendments to his paper on the Longicornia, 

 which, by the oversight of the Reporter, had not been pre- 

 sented at the proper time: whereupon the Society directed it 

 to be published in the Proceedings under its appropriate date, 

 and with the proper explanations. 



Pending nominations, from No. 197 to 202, inclusive, were 

 read. 



