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United States, delivered February 27, 1844, by Mr. Justice 

 Story. Philadelphia, 1844. 8vo. — From Thojnas P. Cope. 



Dr. Patterson announced the death of the senior member of 

 the Society, Mr. Benjamin Chew, who died in Germantown 

 on the 30th ultimo, aged 86 years. 



He likewise announced the death of Judge Baldwin, who 

 died in Philadelphia on the 21st of April. 



On motion of Dr. Patterson, Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll was 

 appointed to prepare an obituary notice of Mr. Chew. 



On motion of Dr. Dunglison, Mr. Kane was appointed to 

 prepare an obituary notice of Judge Baldwin. 



Professor Frazer, on the part of the Committee consisting 

 of himself, Mr. M'Euen, and Professor Bache, appointed on 

 the paper of Professor Locke, read at the last meeting, re- 

 ported in favour of publication, which was ordered accord- 

 ingly. 



On motion, leave was granted to Mr. Thomas Gilpin to read 

 a printed paper, entitled, "On the Representation of Minori- 

 ties of Electors to act with the Majority in Elected Assem- 

 blies," which he has addressed to the American Philosophical 

 Society. 



Dr. Hays drew the attention of the Society to a case of de- 

 fective vision, arising, he conceived, from modified refractive 

 power on the part of the crystalline; which he illustrated by 

 diagrams. The communication gave occasion to observations 

 from Dr. Patterson, Professors Cresson and Frazer, Mr. Rich- 

 ards, Mr. Dillingham, Mr. Smith, and Dr. Bache. Professor 

 Cresson related a case in which a person was incapable of dis- 

 tinguishing vertical lines; but with the use of concave glasses 

 he could discover vertical, but not horizontal lines. The de- 

 fect was remedied by the use of cylindrical glasses. Dr. Hays 

 alluded to a case in which the humours of the eye were doubly 

 refractive; but he did not think that such was the fact in the 

 example of defective vision which he had related to the So- 

 ciety. He had, indeed, proved by experiment that it was not 

 so. 



Dr. Dunglison, in the absence of Mr. Kane, Reporter for the 

 year 1843, announced the publication of No. 28 of the So- 



