PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. V. FEBRUARY— DECEMBER, 1852. No. 48. 



Stated Meeting, February 6. 

 Present, seventeen members. 



Dr. Patterson, President, in the Chair. 



Francis G. Smith, jr., M. D., a newly elected member, was 

 presented, and took his seat. 



Letters were read: — 



From Francis G. Smith, jr., dated January 17; from J. For- 

 syth Meigs, dated Jan. 19; from George W. Eckert, dated 

 Jan. 19; froifi Edward King, dated Jan. 19; from Charles 

 Henry Davis, dated Washington, Jan. 27; from J. W. Bailey, 

 dated West Point, Jan. 27; and from Alfred Stille, dated Phi- 

 ladelphia, Jan. 29, 1852, — severally acknowledging the receipt 

 of notice of their election as members of the Society: — 



From the Zoological Society of London, dated 11 Hanover 

 ' Square, returning thanks for the Proceedings of this Society, 

 Nos. 43 and 44:— 



From the Secretary of I'Ecole des Mines, dated Paris, Sept. 

 20, 1851, announcing a donation to the Library of the So- 

 ciety: — 



From Lieut. M. F. Maury, dated Observatory, Washington, 

 1852, inviting the co-operation of the Society in a general 

 system of meteorological observations: and — 



From Peter A. Browne, Esq., dated Philadelphia, Jan. 30, 

 1852, offering to exhibit to the Society a collection of fine 

 wools, grown in Saxony, and presented to him by the king of 

 that country. 



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