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Stated Meeting, February 3, 1871. 
Present, twelve members. 
Mr. Fraury, Vice President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Goodfellow, a newly elected member, was presented to 
the presiding officer, and took his seat, 
Letters accepting membership were received from Mr. W. 
Thos. Roepper, dated Bethlehem, Jan. 80; from GC. KE. Dut- 
ton, Lieut. of Ordnance U.S. A., Frankford Arsenal, Jan. 30; 
from Thos. Meehan, dated Germantown, Jan. 26; from W. C. 
Cattell, dated Lafayette College, Kaston, Pa., Jan’y 28; from 
Edward Goodfellow, dated 927 Clinton Street, Phila., Jan'y 
23; and from Geo. G. Meade, Maj. Gen. U.S. A., dated Phila., 
Jan’y 80, 1871. 
A letter was received from Wm. Lowber, M. D., dated 819 
S. 16th Street, Phila. Jan’y 8, 1871, offering for the accept- 
ance of the Society the glass cylinder of the electrical machine 
belonging to his great-grandfather, David Rittenhouse, an 
early President of the Society. On motion, the offer was ac- 
cepted, and the Curators were desired to return to Dr. Lowber 
the thanks of the Society. 
A letter was received from Wm. Hitchman, M. D., dated 
29 Hrskine Street, Liverpool, Kng., January, respecting the 
organization of a Liverpool Anthropological Society. 
Donations for the Library were received from the Italian 
Committee of Geology, the Academia dei Lincei at Rome, the 
Berlin Academy, the London Astronomical Society, the Essex 
Institute, the Boston Natural History Society, the American 
Journal of Science, the Franklin Institute, Penn Monthly, 
Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, American Journal of 
Pharmacy, and London Nature, 
