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business which custom in addition to our laws has heretofore required, 

 and he may have rendered. 



Resolved, That the increased labour required of our Librarian, in 

 consequence of the extensive correspondence of the Society, the re- 

 ceiving and transmitting of parcels, the daily attendance at the rooms 

 required by our members, to answer their demands for books, toge- 

 ther with the continually increasing applications for the use of manu- 

 scripts and other books by strangers and citizens, as well as other 

 services expected of him, not originally contemplated in his appoint- 

 ment as Librarian, render it needful to make some change in our 

 laws — therefore 



Resolved, That the whole subject be committed to the Officers and 

 Council, with directions to report thereon at an early meeting of the 

 Society. 



The Reporter laid before the meeting. No. 45 of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Society. 



Stated Meeting, January 17. 



Present, twenty-seven members. 



Dr. Patterson, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read : — 



From the Trustees of the State Library of New York, dated 

 Albany, January 15th, 1851: — 



From the New Jersey Historical Societj', dated Newark, 

 January 15, 1851: and — 



From the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, dated Phila- 

 delphia, January 15th, 1851, respectively acknowledging the 

 receipt of No. 45 of the Proceedings of this Society. 



The following donations were announced : — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. X. No. 1. 



November 8, 1850. London 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, at Boston, May 



29, and at Worcester, Oct. 23, 1850. Worcester. 8vo. — From 



the Society. 



