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Resolved, That a permanent Publication Fund be now establish- 

 ed, which shall consist of any surplus of the income of the Society 

 from rents, contributions and other sources, (other than the interest 

 and dividends on the Trust Funds) after the payment of the ordinary 

 expenses, and also of any unexpended balance of the annual appro- 

 priation to the Committee of Publication ; — such surplus and unex- 

 pended balance at the close of each year to be invested, under the 

 direction of the Committee of Finance; — and the principal and inte- 

 rest of the said permanent Publication Fund shall be subject to such 

 appropriation to, and expenditure by, the Committee of Publication, 

 as the Society may, from time to time, order and direct. 



Resolved, That the present investments of the Society, and the re- 

 investments of the same that may at any time hereafter be made, 

 and the interest and dividends received thereon, shall now constitute 

 the Trust Funds of the Society, and be so kept and accounted for by 

 the Treasurer ; — and all dividends and income received thereon shall 

 be invested under the direction of the Committee of Finance, and be 

 regularly added to, and form part of, the said Trust Funds. And the 

 said Trust Funds, as so established and increased, shall be held and 

 applied exclusively to meet and discharge the several Trusts assumed 

 by the Society, and any other debt, of a special nature, for which it 

 may now be liable. 



Stated Meeting, June \S. 



Present, thirteen members. 



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



Dr. Still6, a recently elected member, was presented, and 

 took his seat. 



Letters w^ere read: — 



From the Secretary of FEcole des Mines, dated Paris, 12th 

 January, 1852; from the Secretary of the Cambridge Philo- 

 sophical Society, dated Cambridge, 31st March, 1852; from 

 Don Pedro de Angelis, dated Buenos Ayres, 31st March, 

 1852; — all announcing donations for the Society's Library: — 



From the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, dated 



