250 



On motion of Mr. Trego, a Committee was appointed to 

 examine further, and report upon the specimens of fine Saxony 

 and other wools submitted to the inspection of the Society on 

 Friday last, by P. A. Browne, Esq. The Committee consists 

 of Mr. Trego, Mr. Justice and Dr. Elwyn. 



Stated Meeting, March 5. 



Present, nineteen members. 



Dr. Franklin Bache, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read : — 



From the Linnean Society, dated Soho square, London, 

 Jan. 22, 1852, returning thanks for Vol. V. No. 46, of the 

 Proceedings of the Society: — and 



From Townsend Ward, Librarian of the Historical Society 

 of Pennsylvania, dated Philadelphia, March 4, 1852, request- 

 ing permission, on behalf of that Society, to have taken a copy 

 of the portrait of the late P. S. Duponceau, belonging to the 

 American Philosophical Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBEAKY. 



Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XII. No. 

 2. Dec. 12, 1851. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 



A Notice of the Origin, Progress and Present Condition of the Aca- 

 demy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. By W. S. W. Rus- 

 chenberger, M. D. (Read before the Academy, Feb. 10. 1852). 

 Philada. 1852. 8vo. — From the Academy. 



An Address on the Occasion of the Centennial Celebration of the 

 Founding of the Pennsylvania Hospital, delivered June 10, 1851, 

 by George B. Wood, M. D. Philada. 1851. 8vo.— From the 

 Managers of the Pennsa. Hospital. 



Another Copy of the same. — From Dr. G. B, Wood. 



Report of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, for the year 

 1851. By Thomas S. Kirkbride, M. D., Physician to the Insti- 

 tution. Philada. 1852. — From the Author. 



