Mr. DU PONCEAU, President, in the Chair. The result of the annual election for officers, held this day, was reported by the judges and clerks as follows: President. Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL. D. Nathaniel Chapman, M. D., Franklin Bache, M. D., Alexander D. Bache, LL. D., J. Francis Fisher. Counsellors for Three Years. Robert Hare, M. D., William Meredith, William Hembel, Jun., Charles D. Meigs, M. D. Curators. Isaac Lea, Isaac Hays, M. D., Franklin Peale. Treasurer. John Vaughan. The following donations were received: FOR THE LIBRARY. Annual Discourse delivered before the Ohio Historical and Philosophical Society, at Columbus, December 23, 1837. By Timothy Walker. Cincinnati, 1838.-From the Author. Address delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha of Maine. By J. R. Ingersoll. Brunswick, Me., 1837.—From the Author. Logic, or the Art of Reasoning simplified. By S. E. Parker. Published by Robert Davis. Philadelphia, 1837.-From the Publisher. Essay on the Veterinary Art, giving an Account of the Veterinary Colleges of France and England, &c. By P. A. Browne. Philadelphia, 1837.-From the Author. Researches on the Cheiroptera of the United States. By William Cooper. New York, 1837.-From the Author. FOR THE CABINET. Neptune's punch bowl (Gigantia Alcyonia), from Singapore.-From Captain Story, through Messrs. Eyre & Massey. Two specimens of a new mineral from the neighbourhood of Charlotte, N. C., proposed by Mr. Featherstonhaugh to be called leopardalite. From Mr. Franklin Peale. A specimen of augite in steatite, from Oxford, N. H.-From Dr. James Mease. Mr. Lea read a paper in continuation of his Memoir on fresh water and land shells, which was referred. Stated Meeting, January 19. Present, thirty-two members. Mr. DU PONCEAU, President, in the Chair. The following donations were received: FOR THE LIBRARY. The Philadelphia Practice of Midwifery. By Charles D. Meigs, M. D. Philadelphia, 1838.-From the Author. Congressional Documents of the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress. 4 vols. Washington, 1837-8.-From the Hon. John Forsyth, Secretary of State. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. II. Part I. London, 1836.-From the Society. A Comprehensive Minute, commemorative of Philip Syng Physick, M. D., Emer. Prof. of Anatomy and Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania. Prepared by direction of the Trustees. Philadelphia, 1838.-From William Meredith, Esq. Journal für die Baukunst. Herausgegeben von Dr. A. L. Crelle. Vols. I. & II. Berlin, 1829-30.—From Prof. Henry Vethake. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Herausgegeben von Dr. A. L. Crelle. 5 vols. Berlin, 1826 to 1830.-From the same. A Catalogue of Plants, native and naturalized, in the vicinity of Newbern, N. C. By H. B. Croom. New York, 1837.-From Dr. John Torrey. Introductory Lecture on the Dignity of the Law. Delivered before the Cincinnati College, November, 1837. By Timothy Walker. Cincinnati, 1837.-From the Author. Annales des Mines. Vol. XI. Paris, 1837.-From the Engineers of Mines. Mr. Lea read a paper in further continuation of his Memoir on fresh water and land shells, which was referred. Mr. Walker presented to the notice of the Society, the drawings of a self-registering anemometer and rain gauge, invented by Mr. Follett Osler, of Birmingham, England, of which he explained the character and advantages. The Society elected John Vaughan librarian. Mr. Vaughan announced the death of Joshua Humphreys, a member of the Society, aged 86. The following candidates were elected members: CAPTAIN ANDREW TALCOTT, late of the U. S. Engineers. CHARLES G. B. DAUBENY, M. D., of the Univ. of Oxford. Stated Meeting, February 2. Present, twenty-three members. Mr. DU PONCEAU, President, in the Chair. The following donations were received: FOR THE LIBRARY. The Laws of Wages, Profits, and Rents investigated. By George Tucker, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Virginia. Philadelphia, 1837.-From the Author. The Select Medical Library. Edited by John Bell, M. D. Nos. 13, 14, 15. Philadelphia, 1837-8.-From the Editor. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches, &c. By Thomas L. M'Kenney & James Hall, Esq. Nos. 1 to 9. Philadelphia, 1838.-From Messrs. E. C. Biddle and F. W. Greenough. Life and Services of Commodore William Bainbridge, of the United States Navy. By Thomas Harris, M. D. Philadelphia, 1837.From the Author. FOR THE CABINET. Theodolite which belonged to William Penn, and was used in laying out the City of Philadelphia.-From Mr. Philip Physick. Press used in making impressions from the Great Seal of Pennsylvania under the Proprietary Government.-From the same. A letter was read from John K. Townsend, dated January 20th, 1838, announcing the transmission of the Indian Vocabularies collected for the Society, and of certain shells and geological specimens, selected for its use by Mr. Peale. A communication from the late Joshua Humphreys, Esq., dated December 23d, 1837, was read, on the subject of the early history of the naval construction of the United States, tending to correct an erroneous impression as to the opinions and wishes of President Washington on the subject of the navy, which had found place in Professor Tucker's Biography of Mr. Jefferson, and which had been the subject of remark by Dr. Harris in his Life of Bainbridge. This communication was referred to the Historical Committee. The president communicated a letter to him from Mr. Ty |