Stated Meeting, March 16. 



Present, seventeen members. 

 Dr. Patterson, Vice President, in the Chair. 

 The following donations were received: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



The Statutes at Large of South Carolina. Edited under the Autho- 

 rity of the Legislature. By Thomas Cooper. Vol. II. Colum- 

 bia, S. C, 1837.— From Dr. Philip Tidyman. 



Speech on the Bill to suspend the Payment of the Fourth Instalment 

 of the Surplus Revenue of the United States. By Charles F. 

 Mercer. Washington, 1837. — From the Author. 



Statistical Tables, exhibiting the Condition and Product of certain 

 Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, for the Year ending the 

 1st of April, 1837. By John P. Bigelow, Seci*etary of the Com- 

 monwealth. Boston, 1838. — From Josiah Quincy, Jun., Esq. 



Reports of the Engineers of the Western Rail Road Corporation, 

 made to the Directors in 1836-7. — From the same. 



Fourth Annual Report on the Common Schools, Academies, and Col- 

 leges of Pennsylvania. By T. H. Burrowes, Secretary of the 

 Commonwealth. Harrisburg, 1838. — From the Author. 



Mr. Lea invited the attention of the Society to certain facts, 

 mentioned in a " Memoire sur quelques Acephales d'eau douce 

 du Senegal," by Mr. Rang, in relation to the torpidity of the 

 Anadonta Chaiziana. 



