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Rev. Within a laurel crown placed on a trophy of flags, Der TapPbbkbit.

36. Obv. Profile bust facing left. Friederich Wilhelm Herzog.

Rev. 1815 within a crown of oak and laurel. Braunschweig SeiNen Rriegern Quatre Brat Und Waterloo.

37. Obv. p. w. surmounting a regal crown. Below, Preussens Tappern

Kriegern. Circular legend, Gott War Mitt Uns, Ihm Sei Die

EHRE.

Rev. A cross between rays. 1815 in the centre of a laurel and oak crown. Below, Aus Erobertem Geschutze. The same medal also exists with the date 1813 and with the date Jf}|.

38. An oval medal bearing same emblems as the last. The inscription

differs, and is Fur Pplichttreue Im Kriege.

39. Obv. A ducal coronet. Fur Das Recht : Im Ramppe.

Rev. A rose with five leaves surrounded by a circle and ten arches. Below, Hrrzogth: Gotha Und Altenburg Mdcccxiv. Mdcccxv.

40. Obv. The letter "P " above a closed crown. Rev. 1815 in a laurel wreath.

41. Obv. A battered head of an old person; above, Medaille De Water

Loo ; below, Au Dernier Des Chauvins Voila Tout Ce Qui Reste. Rev. Revers De La Medaille. 15 Juin 1815. Legend, A ses compagnons de raclee sa derniere parole... .signe cambronne.

42. Obv. Monument of Waterloo; at the base, Xviii Juni Mdcccxv. Rev. Souvenir du champ de bataille de Waterloo.

43. Obv. Same monument; Champ de bataille de Waterloo. Rev. In an oak crown, Souvenir De Belgique.

44. Obv. Same as 43.

Rev. In a circle, De Haze ; Mont St. Jean.
Circular legend, Hotel Des Colonnes.

45. Obv. Peace in a cultivated field; Heil Dem Frieden! Er Segnet

REICH DIE ERDE.

Rev. An arch of triumph bearing the words, Gloria ! Eure Thaten Bewunderen Millionen. Exergue, 1815.

46. A button; obverse, Waterloo Juin 1815.

Rev. A landscape with the Church of Waterloo in the distance.

47. Obv. Liberty and Victory, holding in their hands a crown; above a

lion which has broken its chains, and a mass of arms. In the background the lion of Waterloo on its mound. Eendragt Ma Akt Magt. Exergue 1815, 1865. Rev. An oak crown bound with bands charged with seven shields of armorial bearing. Pr. V. Oranje Saxen Weymar perponclur Brumwyk-ocls. Uxbridge Wellington. Picton. Bulow. Ziethen. Blucher.

48. Obv. Same as 47, without any inscription.

Rev. The lion of Waterloo. Below, 1815. Herinnering aan het halve eeuwfeest 18 Junij 1865. Waterloo.

49. Obv. Laureated profile and bust of Prince of Orange (Wm. Ill) facing

left. Db Held Tan Waterloo. Rev. An antique warrior descended from a horse is crushing with an enormous stone a conquered foe. Sfeerlands Rocm 18 Junij 1815 plegteg herdacht. 18 Junij 1865 Exergue, De tiranny verslagen.

50. Obv. A lion on a pedestal encircled by a trophy of arms and flags.

On the pedestal, xvm Junij Mdcccxv. Legende, Waterloo 18151865. Rev. The crowned escutcheon of the Netherlands supported by those of England and Prussia. Below, on a ribband, Je maintiendrai. Ter Herinneg aan de rocmrijke dagen van 1815.

51. Obv. A helmet, sword and palm beneath the word Waterloo, on

which the sun is shedding its rays. Below, 16—18 Junij 1815. Exergue, MDCCCLXV. Rev. In a laurel crown De strik is gebroken, en wij zyn ontkomen. P1. cxxrv Vs 7. i

52. Medallion. The lion on its pedestal with the date XVIII Juny

MD 0 CCXV surrounded by oak and laurel branches; below, Deus Noster Refugium Et Virtus. On the edge 1815-1865. WellingTon, Bluecher, Oranje.

53. Obv. Bust facing left. Georg v. v. g. g. Kmnig v. Hannover.

Rev. In a laurel crown, Den Siegern bei Waterloo gewidmet am 18 Juni 1865. On the edge Nee aspera terrent.

54. Obv. The arms of the City of Hanover. Stadt Hannover Den

Siegern V. Waterloo 18 Juni 1815. Rev. In a laurel crown, Zur 50 Jahrigen jubelfeier am 18 Juni 1865.

Stated Meeting, December 6, 1878.

Present, 13 members.

Vice-President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair.

Letters accepting membership were received from C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., Professor of Organic Chemistry, Owens College, Manchester, Nov. 4, 1878, and from M. A. Des Cloizeaux, Paris, Nov. 10,1878.

Letters of acknowledgment were received from the R. Library, Berlin (100; List); Natural History Society, Freiberg in Baden (99; 100; List); Oberhessische Gesellschaft, Giessen (100; want 99); Royal Society, Luxembourg (101); Statistical Society, London (100; Cat. part iii); Smithsonian Institution (101).

Letters of envoy were received from the Royal Irish Academy, Oct. 1878 , and the Consul General of the Netherlands, New York, Nov. 22, 1878; and Prof. Jacob Ennis, Shippensburg, Dec. 3, 1878.

Donations for the Library were received from the Academies at St. Petersburg, Buda-Pesth, Berlin, Lisbon and Philadelphia; the Societies at Halle, Bamberg, Breslau, and Bordeaux; Flora Batava; London Nature; Nova Scotian Institute, Halifax; Prof. Ennis; Essex Institute; Mass. Historical Society: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge; American Journal of Science, and Prof. Marsh, of New Hampshire; New Jersey Historical Society; Mr. Robinson, of Philadelphia; the War Department, and Prof. Cleveland Abbe; Editor of the American Antiquarian, Cleveland, Ohio; the Botanical Gazette; Dr. J. W. Mallet, of Mexico, and Mr. Lane S. Hart, State Printer, Harrisburg.

A donation for the collection of portraits was received from Mr. Sol. W. Roberts, a portrait of the late Joseph Henry, in oils, framed and endorsed, " Prof. Joseph Henry, Sec'y of the Smithsonian Institution, &c. Born at Albany, New York, Dec. 17, 1797; Died at Washington, D. C, May 13, 1878, in his eighty-first year. This small portrait of Prof. Henry is presented to the American Philosophical Society by Solomon W. Roberts, Civil Engineer, Philad'a, Dec. 1878."

A paper, entitled "Descriptive List of Medals Struck to Commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. By Henry Phillips, Jr." was read by the Secretary.

Mr. Blasius exhibited and described an ingenious musical invention of Mr. Matthews, of Boston, on the principle of the Jacquard Loom, by which tunes are played, and the instruction of children in time and modulation is made easy.

Prof. Prime described the moraines and surface drift deposits of Northampton County, Pa., and exhibited their positions on a large map.

Prof. Prime described the glacial drift of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, as determined by him during the past Summer.

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A glacial moraine may be traced from the Wind Gap in the Kittatinny Mountain through Ackermannville, Bangor and Williamsburg to Portland on the Delaware River. Crossing the river at this point it extends across New Jersey on to Long Island. This Moraine exhibits the hummock surface so common to glacial moraines everywhere; sometimes it contains peat beds ; is often forty to sixty feet high, and is the cause of the marshy deposits so frequent in that portion of the country. Being easily cultivated and the soil quite productive it is usually cleared and cultivated.

West of the Wind Gap no glacial moraine can be seen as far as the Lehigh River. That it has existed, however, there is but little doubt and was probably washed away again by aqueoub action to be re-deposited as modified drift over most of the limestone portion of the country north of the Lehigh, covering the limestone and rendering its structure difficult to determine. This modified drift is quite prominent at two points; one being on top of the hill where lies West Bethlehem, the other at Easton, in what is called West Ward, both at a height of about 320 feet above tidelevel. At West Bethlehem the drift is distinctly stratified, consisting of alternated layers of sand and pebbles or small boulders. At Easton, however, such a bedding is not so distinct.

The fact that both of these deposits occur almost at the same level, would seem to indicate that they had been deposited cotemporaneously by the same action, either nuvintile or due to a subsidence.

Another glacial moraine also exists in the Saucon Valley south of the Lehigh, it extends from Friedensville almost to Bingen station on the North Pennsylvania Railroad.

No trace of glacial action has been as yet noted in the Laurentain rocks forming the South Mountain in Northampton county, and the glaciers either passed around them or going over left no trace of their course. The former being probably the case.

In the discussion which followed Mr. Lesley added the following facts which touched upon the now so widely mooted questions relating to the Drift phenomena of the United States:

He remarked that there were similar isolated patches of gravel, each several hundreds of acres in extent, lying on the level upland of Delaware and Chester counties, south west of Philadelphia, and that these patches have about the same elevation above tide, say ;3.ri0 feet.

The uppermost or gravel terrace along the north-west side of the valley of the Delaware River, the remains of which have been traced by Mr. Lewis, ot Germantown, all the way from Wilmington, in Delaware, northward through Chester county and the Fairmount Park, halfway to Trenton, is made by recent levels taken by Mr. Lewis and Mr. C. W. Ames to occupy about the same geological position. Mr. Lewis asserts that he has

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identified this high level terrace at points in New Jersey on the southeastern wall of the Delaware River Valley.

At the date of this terrace, whether in tertiary or post-tertiary times, tide water must have covered not only Chester and Delaware counties, but broad belts of inland, including the limestone plain of Northampton and Lehigh counties, and the sites of Easton and Bethlehem.

Professor Frazer has discovered two patches of drift gravel at points in Lancaster county, some miles back from the Susquehanna River, and distant from each other.

It is therefore probable that at the time of the deposit of these gravels a large part of south-eastern Pennsylvania, and in fact of the whole seaboard of the United States, was at least 400 feet under water.

Whether or not a greater depth of water can be assigned, may perhaps be settled by the lines of levels now being run by the Geological Survey to determine accurately the heights of the isolated gravel beds, in connection with the study of other parts of the State.

Mr. Lesley then referred to his discussion of the 1300 foot subsidence of Western Pennsylvania, published in his preface to Professor White's Report of Progress on Beaver county, but considered all present generalizations premature for want of sufficiently accurate data in a sufficient number of places.

It is possible that the remarkable terminal moraine described by the New Jersey geologists, and by Professor Prime, may have had its geographical position determined by the border of standing water (ocean) at the time when tide level stood at least 400 feet above its present datum.

The Annual report of the Treasurer was read.

Pending nomination No. 871 and new nomination 872 were read.

The Curators reported that the Cabinet of Antiquities had been removed to the Academy of Natural Sciences, on deposit, subject to demand, in accordance with the resolution of November 16,1877, and receipted for by W. S. W. Ruschenberger, President of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

The Curators reported that the Cabinet of Coins had been removed to the Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial Art in Fairmount Park, on deposit in the custody of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, subject to demand, in accordance with the resolution of November 15,1878, and receipted for by Henry Phillips, Jr., for that Society.

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