Congressional Documents of the First Session of the Twentv-fifth 



Congress. 4 vols. Washington, 1837-8. — From the Hon. John 



Forsyth, Secretary of State. 

 Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. IT. Part I. 



London, 1836. — From the Society. 

 A Comprehensive Minute, commemorative of Philip Syng Physick, 



M. D., Emer. Prof, of Anatomy and Surgery in the University 



of Pennsylvania. Prepared by direction of the Trustees. Phila- 

 delphia, 1838. — From William Meredith, Esq. 

 Journal fur die Baukunst. Herausgegeben von Dr. A. L. Crelle. 



Vols. I. & II. Berlin, 1829-30.— From Prof. Henry Vethake. 

 Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Herausgegeben 



von Dr. A. L. Crelle. 5 vols. Berlin, 1826 to 1830.— From 



the same. 

 A Catalogue of Plants, native and naturalized, in the vicinity of New- 



bern, N. C. By H. B. Groom. New York, 1837.— From Dr. 



John Torrey. 

 Introductory Lecture on the Dignity of the Law. Delivered before 



the Cincinnati College, November,- 1837. By Timothy Walker. 



Cincinnati, 1837. — From the Author. 

 Annales des Mines. Vol. XI. Paris, 1837. — From the Engineers 



of Mines. 



Mr. Lea read a paper in further continuation of his Memoir 

 on fresh water and land shells, which was referred. 



Mr. Walker presented to the notice of the Society, the 

 drawings of a self-registering anemometer and rain gauge, in- 

 vented by Mr. Follett Osier, of Birmingham, England, of 

 which he explained the character and advantages. 



The Society elected John Vaughan librarian. 



Mr. Vaughan announced the death of Joshua Humphreys, 

 a member of the Society, aged 86. 



The following candidates were elected members: — 



Captain Andrew Talcott, late of the U. S. Engineers. 



Thomas W. Griffith, Esq., of Baltimore. 



Charles G. B. Daubeny, M. D., of the Univ. of Oxford. 



Henry Reed, Esq., of the University of Pennsylvania. 



William Norris, of Philadelphia County. 



William Sullivan, Esq., of Boston. 



