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that Committee, recommending the adoption, by the Society, 

 of the following resolutions : 



Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to superintend the ar- 

 rangement of the Franklin Manuscript Papers, in chronological or- 

 der, with a view to their convenient binding in volumes; with power 

 to engage the services of a person to perform the labour of arranging 

 the papers and preparing a general index to the volumes. 



Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding two hundred and fifty dol- 

 lars, be appropriated to defray the expenses of arranging the papers, 

 preparing the index, and binding the volumes. 



Which resolutions were considered and adopted, and, under 

 the first resolution, a Committee was appointed, consisting of 

 Dr. Franklin Bache, Mr. Ord and Mr. Justice. 



Stated Meeting, December 21. 



Present, eleven members. 



Dr. Patterson, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read : — 



From Dr. J. Hughes Bennett, dated Edinburg, 15th Nov. 

 1849:— 



From Dr. Leidy, dated Philadelphia, 12th December, 1S49; 

 both acknowledging the receipt of notice of their election as 

 members of this Society: — 



From the Royal Society of London, dated Somerset House, 

 August, 1849, acknowledging the receipt of Vol. X. of the 

 Transactions, and Nos. 36 to 40, inclusive, of the Proceedings 

 of this Society : and, — 



From the Historical Society of New Jersey, dated New- 

 ark, N. J., 30th November, 1849, announcing the transmission 

 of a donation to this Society. 



The following donations were announced : — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Memoires de I'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des 

 Beaux Arts de Belgique. Tomes XXI. et XXII. Bruxelles, 1848. 

 4to. — From the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences, <^c. 



VOL. V. — Q 



