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Report of the President and Managers of the Schuylkill Navigation 

 Company, to the Stockholders. January 6, 1845. 8vo. — From 

 S. W. Roberts, Esq. 



Report to the Board of Managers of the Schuylkill Navigation Com- 

 pany, on the Improvement of the Schuylkill Navigation. By 

 Solomon W. Roberts, Civil Engineer. Philadelphia, January 2, 

 1845. 8vo. — From the Author. 



Mirror for Dyspeptics ; from the Diary of a Landlord. By J. M. 

 Sanderson, Franklin House. Philadelphia, 1844. — From the 

 Author. 



ADDITIONS TO THE tIBEARY BY PURCHASE. 



Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Seances de I'Academie des Sci- 

 ences. Tome XIX. Nos. 14 to 17, inclusive. 4to. 

 Tables des Comptes Rendus. Tome XVIII. 



Dr. Chapman offered his resignation of the office of Vice- 

 President of the Society. 



Dr. Chapman announced the death of Granville Penn, Esq., 

 a member of this Society, upon 28th September, 1844. 



Mr. Job R. Tyson was appointed to prepare an obituary no- 

 tice of Mr. Penn. 



Major James D. Graham read a continuation of a paper, en- 

 titled "Some Observations made upon the Dip of the Magnetic 

 Needle, at a number of Stations between the City of Washing- 

 ton and the extreme North-east and North Frontiers of Maine, 

 in 1841, 1843, and 1844:" which was referred to a Committee, 

 consisting of Prof, Frazer, Prof. Bache, Prof. Kendall. 



Prof. S. S. Haldeman read a paper, upon the History of the 

 Coleoptera Longicornia of the United States, which was re- 

 ferred to a Committee, consisting of Mr. T. R. Peale, Mr. Lea, 

 and Mr. Ord. 



Mr. George Ord was reelected Librarian. 



The following standing Committees were appointed for the 

 year: — 



Of Finance.— Mr. C. C. Biddle, Mr. Lea, Dr. Patterson. 



Of Publication. — Mr. Lea, Dr. Hays, Mr. J. Francis Fisher. 



On the Hall.— Mr. Campbell, Mr. Fraley, Mr. Kane. 



071 the Library. — Dr. Hays, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Penning- 

 ton. 



