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ivhich was referred a letter from the Superintendent of the U. S. 

 Coast Survey, to wit: 



1. That the survey of the coast is a work, which, from its import- 

 ance to our citizens, recommends itself in the strongest manner to the 

 protection of the government. 



2. That the benefits, both of a scientific and practical character, 

 which have already been derived, and are constantly resulting from 

 it, are such as to repay abundantly the labour and expense which 

 have been and may hereafter be devoted to it. 



3. That it has heretofore been conducted accurately, efficiently, 

 and economically, and that there is every reason to believe that it 

 will best thrive by being left with its present organization. 



4. And that, as well from the magnitude of the undertaking, as 

 from the skill and energy with which it has been conducted, it will 

 prove honourable to those who first conceived it, and to those who 

 have been engaged in its prosecution. 



Stated Meeting, February 16. 



Present, eleven members. 



Dr. Patterson, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received and read: — 



From Prof. E. N. Horsford, dated Cambridge, Feb. 2, 1849, 

 acknowledging the receipt of notice of his election as a mem- 

 ber of this Society: and — 



From the Franklin Institute, dated Philadelphia, 18th Jan- 

 uary, 1849, acknowledging the receipt of Vol V. No. 41, of 

 the Proceedings of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Monograph of the Fossil Squalidse of the United States. By Robert 

 W. Gibbs, M.D. of Columbia, S. C. No. 2. Reprinted from the 

 .Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 January, 1849. 4to. — From the Autlior. 



The Medical News and Library. Vol. VII. No. 74. February, 

 1849. 8vo. — From Lea <^ Blanchard. 



