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desired to acknowledge the donation of the Bushrod Wash 
ington Chair, described in the letter, and to return the 
thanks of the Society for the same. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the 
Rhode Island Historical Society, (Proc. 88) and Yale Col- 
lege Corporation (Proce. 88). 
Donations for the Library were received from the Revue 
Politique, and London Nature, the Geological Survey of 
New Hampshire, Silliman’s Journal, and the Franklin In- 
stitute. 
The Committee to which was referred Mr. Lyman’s map 
and description of the Staley’s Creek Iron Ore District, re- 
ported in favor of its publication in the Transactions. The 
report was accepted and the publication ordered. 
The Committee to which was referred Mr. Gabb’s Memoir 
on the Geology, &c., of Santo Domingo, reported in favor of 
its publication in the Transactions. On motion the report 
was accepted and the publication ordered. 
The death of Mr. Constant Guillou, at Philadelphia, the 
20th ult., was announced by the Secretary. 
Mr. James desired to place on the minutes that he had 
duly returned the MSS. letter of Dr. Franklin and the map 
accompanying Pursh’s MSS., Botanical Journal, which he 
had been permitted to borrow from the library. 
Dr. Emerson exhibited one of the bricks of a chimney 
scattered by lightning in the storm of the 25th ultimo; a 
chimney belonging to a house in which he was sleeping at 
the time. 
Mr. Lesley desired to place on record authentie data re- 
specting fourteen oil wells sunk by the Brady’s Bend Iron 
Company, at and near their works, on the Allegheny River; 
and explained the importanee of facts, so obtained, when 
comparable, in view of the general inaccessibility of the 
Sub-carboniferous formations underlying the Oil Regions. A 
discussion of oil theories and of the history of the oil dis- 
coveries followed, in which Mr. Lyman, Mr. Gabb, Dr. Le 
Conte, and other members took part. 
