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The following resolution was offered by Mr. Price and 
agreed to, and the accompanying letter ordered to be placed 
upon the minutes: 
Resolved, That the Curators be authorized to deliver the Continental 
Congress Chair to the Mayor, taking an acceptance of it from Councils, 
that it shall be placed in Independence Hall, subject to be reclaimed at 
any time by this Society. 
To Hon. William 8. Stokely, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia : 
We herewith deliver into the custody of the City of Philadelphia an 
Arm Chair used by the Continental Congress, now belonging to the Amer- 
ican Philosophical Society, that it may be placed in the Hall of Indepen- 
dence, and accepted by Councils, subject to be at any time reclaimed by 
said Society. 
(Signed) JOSEPH CARSON, } 
ELIAS DURAND, | Ourators. 
HECTOR TYNDALE, | 
December, 1872. 
The Librarian stated that a large number of books and. 
brochures needed binding; that the book-cases had again 
become overcrowded by accessions; that certain classes of 
books were seldom or never referred to; that the catalogue 
in MS. of the Theological books and pamphlets was nearly 
finished; and suggested that the book-cases might be re- 
lieved and a benefit be conferred on learning by depositing 
the Chemieal, Mineralogical, and Geological books, tempo- 
rarily, in the new building of the University of Pennsy|- 
vania. 
On motion of Mr. Ruschenberger, it was 
Resolved, That the Committee on the Library be requested to consider 
the expediency of depositing in the library of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania certain books now in the library of the Society, which are not much 
called for ; and in ease they shall deem the same expedient, then to report 
a plan for carrying the same into effect, which will insure tie use of the 
books to the members of the Society, and also provide for the safe keep- 
ing of the books so deposited, and their return to the Society when ealled 
for. 
And the Society was adjourned. 
