the Institution, up to Jan. 1, 1856: And the Proceedings of the Board, up to March 22, 1856. Washington. 8vo.-From the Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia. Vol. VIII. No. 5. Sept.-Oct. 1856. Philadelphia. 8vo.From the Academy. Wash The African Repository. Vol. XXXII. No. 12. Dec. 1856. New Tables for determining the values of the co-efficients in the per- A Decimal System for the Arrangement and Administration of Libraries. By Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, M.D. Boston, 1856. 4to.From the Author. Proceedings on the occasion of laying the Corner-stone of the Public Library of the City of Boston, Sept. 17, 1855. Boston. 8vo.From N. B. Shurtleff, M.D. Fourth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the Thirteenth Report to the Legislature of Massachusetts, relating to the Second Series. Vol. XIII. (Memoir of John Dalton.) London, 1856. 8vo.-From the Society. The Medical News and Library. Vol. XIV. No. 168. Dec. 1856. Philadelphia. 8vo.-From Blanchard & Lea. The Astronomical Journal. No. 98. Dec. 10, 1856. Albany. 4to.From Dr. B. A. Gould, jr., Editor. The Committee to which was referred the biographical notice of Mr. F. A. Michaux, read by Mr. Durand at the last meeting, reported in favour of its being published as an introductory article to Part 1, of Vol. XI. of the Transactions:Which was ordered accordingly and the committee discharged. Dr. Franklin Bache announced the decease of William Yarrell, of London, a member of this Society, who died August 31, 1856, aged 72. A paper intended for the Transactions, entitled "Remarks on the Structure of the Foot of the Megalonyx; by Joseph Leidy, M.D., was read and referred to Dr. Le Conte, Prof. Trego and Dr. Bridges, as a Committee. The Committee of Finance reported that they had examined the accounts of the Treasurer, and found them correct. The committee recommended the following appropriations for the current year, which were ordered to be made. The same committee reported a preamble, accompanied by the following resolution, with a recommendation that it be adopted; and it was accordingly adopted:— Resolved, That the further increase of the permanent publication fund is at this time inexpedient, and that the provisions of the resolu tion of the Society passed May 21, 1852, relative to said fund be, and the same are hereby suspended until the further order of the Society. The Transactions and Proceedings of the Society hereafter published, were ordered to be sent to the Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association. Dr. DUNGLISON, Vice-President, in the Chair. The report of the judges and clerks of the annual election for officers of the Society, held this day, was presented and read; by which it appeared that the following named gentlemen had been elected: President. John K. Kane. Vice Presidents. Robley Dunglison, Secretaries. Charles B. Trego, John L. Le Conte. Members of the Council, for Three Years. George M. Justice, George Tucker, William Harris, Robert Patterson. Curators. Franklin Peale, M. Fisher Longstreth. Treasurer. Charles B. Trego. VOL. VI.-2 K The following donations were announced: FOR THE LIBRARY. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XVI. No. 1. Nov. 1856. London. 8vo.-From the Society. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. VI. No. 3. Boston. 8vo.-From the Society. Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XXXII. No. 6. Dec. 1856. Philadelphia. 8vo.-From the Institute. Report of the Commissioner of Patents for 1855. Arts and Manufactures. Vol. 2. Washington. 8vo.-From the Commissioner. Astronomical Observations made during the year 1848, at the U. S. Naval Observatory, Washington, under the direction of M. F. Maury, L.L.D. Lieut. U. S. Navy, Superintendent. Washington, 1856. 4to.-From the Author. A Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology or Materia Medica. By George B. Wood, M.D. late President of the Am. Med. Assoc. &c. &c. 2 Vols. Philadelphia, 1856. 8vo-From the Author. Report on Strychnia: its Physiological Properties and Chemical De tection. By Lewis H. Steiner, M.D., of Baltimore, Md. Philadelphia. 8vo.-From the Author. Twenty-eighth Report of the Natural History Society of Montreal, delivered by the late Council, and read at the Annual Meeting of the Society, May 19, 1856. Montreal. 8vo. Rapport du Surintendant de l'Education pour le Bas-Canada, pour l'année 1855. Toronto. 8vo. Rapport de l'Ecole Normale, des Ecoles de Grammaire, et les Ecoles Communes du Haut-Canada, pour l'année 1854; avec une Appendice par le Surintendant en chef des Ecoles. Quebec. Svo. Rapport des Commissaires des Travaux Publics, pour l'année expirée le 31 Dec. 1856. Toronto. 8vo.-From M. L. A. Huguet Latour. Astronomical Journal, No. 99. (Vol. V. No. 3.) Dec. 24, 1856. Albany. 4to.-From Dr. B. A. Gould, Jr. Editor. Proceedings of the Elliott Society of Natural History of Charleston, S. C. Jan. July, 1856. Charleston. 8vo.-From the Society. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. New Series. Vol. III. Part 3. Philada. Nov. 1856. 4to.-From the Academy. Pending nominations for membership were read. Stated Meeting, January 16. Present, nineteen members. Judge KANE, President, in the Chair. Judge Kane, the newly elected President, on taking the chair, expressed his acknowledgment of the honour conferred upon him, and addressed the Society on its condition, duties, and future prospects of scientific usefulness. The following donations were announced: FOR THE LIBRARY. Annales des Mincs. V. Série. Tome IX. 2 livraison de 1856. Paris. 8vo. From the Engineers of l'Ecole des Mines. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society in Boston, April 30, 1856,—and in Worcester Oct. 21, 1856. Boston. 8vo.From the Society. Report of the Commissioner of Patents, for the year 1855. Agriculture. Washington, 1856. 8vo.-From the Hon. J. R. Tyson. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. No. LXV. New Series. January, 1857. Philadelphia. 8vo.-From Dr. Isaac Hays, Editor. The Medical News and Library. Vol. XV. No. 169. Jan. 1857. Philadelphia. 8vo.-From Blanchard & Lea. Report on the present state of our knowledge of Linguistic Ethnology, made to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Aug. 1856. By Prof. S. S. Haldeman. Cambridge. 8vo.From the Author. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the Operations, Expenditures and Condition of the Institution to January 1, 1856: and the Proceedings of the Board up to March 22, 1856. Washington. 8vo.-From the Institution. The Committee on Dr. Leidy's paper, entitled "Remarks on the Structure of the Foot of Mcgalonyx," made report in favour of its publication in the Transactions of the Society, which was ordered, and the committee discharged. |