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PROCEEDINGS OF 
[May, 
Stated Meeting , May 10, 1841. 
Present, forty-one Members. 
Peter Force, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following donations were received: 
For the Cabinet. 
Collection of Marine Plants, from the Coast of Rhode-Island, made 
and preserved by Mrs. Parker, in September, 1827.— From Gen. 
D. Parker. 
Silver Coins and Minerals.— From Mr. Kervand. 
Three boxes Chinese Insects.— From Commodore Ballard , U. S. N. 
For the Library. 
Two Lithographic copies of a Map of the World, from Ptolemy’s 
Geography, published at Rome in 1508.— From F. R. Hassler. 
Constitution and Plan of Education for the Girard College for Or¬ 
phans, with an introductory Report laid before the Board of Trus¬ 
tees, by Dr. F. Lieber; Philadelphia, 1834.— From the Author. 
Remarks on the Relation between Education and Crime; by the 
same; Philadelphia, 1835.— From the Author. 
History and Political Economy as necessary branches of superior 
Education in Free States; by the same; Columbia, South-Caro- 
lina, 1836.— From the Author. 
Popular Essay on subjects of Penal Law, and on uninterrupted soli¬ 
tary Confinement at Labor, &c.; by the same; Philadelphia, 
1838.— From the Author. 
On the Penitentiary System; by the same; 1839.— From the Au¬ 
thor. 
On International Copy-right, 1840; by the same.— From the Author. 
Report on the Geology of the State of New-York, 1840.— From 
W. W. Mather. 
Eight volumes of the Naturalist’s Library, by Sir William Jardine.— 
From W. G. Crunch. 
Numismatique du Moyen Age, &c., par Joachim Lelewel, 2 vols. 
8vo., and an Atlas.—.From Mr. Kallussoivski , West River , Md. 
