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Jldjourned Meeting, Oct. 13. 



Present, twenty-six members. 



Dr. Patterson, Vice-President., in the Chair. 



The Committee, to whom Prof. Loomis's communication on 

 the Storms of February, 1842, was referred at the meeting on 

 the 15th of September, reported in favour of its publication in 

 the Transactions: — and the publication was ordered accord- 

 ingly. 



On motion of Prof. Frazer, the communications made by Mr. 

 R. C. Taylor at the centennary meeting, " On the Geology of a 

 Portion of the Island of Cuba,^'^ and "On some Fossil Ferns of 

 the family Sigillaria in the Coal Strata of Pennsylvania," were 

 referred to a Committee, consisting of Prof. Frazer, Prof. 

 Booth, and Prof. Bache. 



The Society resumed the consideration of the resolutions re- 

 ported by a Committee at the last meeting; and after discus- 

 sion, it was resolved as follows: — 



1. That for the purpose of preparing the elements of the 

 proposed report, it is expedient that the several subjects to be 

 embraced in it should be distributed under appropriate general 

 titles, and that a Committee of one or more members should be 

 appointed to report on the scientific labours included under 

 each title. 



2. That the 2d, 3d, and 4th resolutions reported by the 

 Committee at the last meeting, be referred back to the same 

 Committee, with instructions to report such a distribution of 

 the scientific labours of the members as is contemplated by the 

 foregoing resolution, and that they also nominate one or more 

 members to constitute each of the several Committees. 



3. That on the report of that Committee being made, the 

 Society will proceed to consider the same, and to determine 

 the number of such Committees to be appointed, and the num- 

 ber of members to constitute the same respectively: and that 

 the Society will then appoint the said Committees from among 

 the names reported by the Committee under the 2d resolu- 

 tion, and such others as may be nominated at the meeting. 



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