PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



VoL.II. JAN. FEB. & MARCH, 1843. No. 25. 



Stated Meeting, January 6. 



Present, twenty-three members. 



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



The judges of the annual election, held this day, reported 

 that the following officers had been chosen for the present 



year: — 



President. 



Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D. 



Vice Presidents. 

 Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., 

 Robert M. Patterson, M.D., 

 Franklin Bache, M.D. 



Secretaries. 

 John K. Kane, 



Alexander Dallas Bache, LL.D., 

 Robley Dunglison, M.D., 

 Joshua Francis Fisher. 



Counsellors for Three Years. 

 Thomas Biddle, 

 Gouverneur Emerson, M.D., 

 Isaac Lea, 

 Hartman Kuhn. 



Counsellor for Two Years, 

 (In place of Philip H. Nicklin, deceased.) 

 Benjamin Dorr, D.D. 



Curators. 

 Isaac Hays, M.D., 

 Franklin Peale, 

 John Price Wetherill. 



Treasurer. 



George Ord. 

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