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May Sth, 1855- 

 Vice President Bridges in the Chair. ' 



Letters were read 



From the Rev. J. C. Adamson, D.D., dated Oxford, Chester Co., 

 Penn., 16th April, 1855, acknowledging the receipt of his notice of 

 election as a Correspondent. 



From the Boston Society of Natural History, dated 17th March and 

 1:2th April, 1855, acknowledging the receipt of late numbers of the 

 Proceedings and Journal. 



From ;VI. Prosper Farbe, President of the Natural History Society of 

 llheims, France, stating that he is at present on a tour through this country 

 for the purpose of collecting objects of Natural History, and proposing 

 exchanges. 



Mr. V;;ux, on behalf of the Publication Committee, announced the 

 publication of Part 1, Vol. 3, new series, of the Journal of the Academy. 



May 15th. 

 Vice President Bridges in the Chair. 



Letters were read 



From the Royal Academy of Sciences of Bavaria, dated Munich, 

 20th Dec, 1854, acknowledging the receipt of the Proceedings, Vol. 6, 

 Nos. 8 12, Vol. 7, Nos. 1 and 2, and of the Journal, Vol. 2, Part 2. 



From the same, dated 20th February, 1855, requesting a second set 

 of the Publications of the Academy for the Library of the Society, the 

 first set being deposited in the public Library of Munich. 



From the Entomological Society of Stettin, dated 3d Feb., 1855, 

 acknowledging the receipt of the Proceedings of the Academy, Vol. 6, 

 Nos. 8 12, Vol. 7, Nos. 1 2, and transmitting their own publications. 



From the Royal x\cademy of Sciences of Vienua, dated 27th Dec, 

 1854, acknowledging the receipt of the Proceedings, Vol. 6, Nos. 8 12, 

 Vol. 7, Nos. 1 and 2, and of the Journal, Part 4, Vol. 2, new series. 



From the Natural History Society of Dantzic, dated 11th Dec, 1854, 

 of the same tenor. 



From Byron King, Esq., Attache U. S. Legation at Paris, dated 20th 

 April, 1855, transmitting Vols. 5 and 6 of the Annales des Mines. 



From W. Humphreys, of Savannah, Georgia, dated 28th April, 1855, 

 relative to a collection of Reptiles. 



May 22d. 

 Vice President Bridges in the Chair. 



Letters were read 



From the Geological Society of London, dated 4th May, 1855, re- 

 questing the transmission of certain missing numbers of the Proceedings 

 of the Academy. 



From the Linnean Society of London, dated ltith Nov., 1854, ac- 



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