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BUSINESS BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION. 



On motion, Kesolved, That the' Publication Committee 

 be authorized to present to the Naval Lyceum, Brooklyn, 

 the Second Part of Volume 8, of the Academy's Journal. 



STATED MEETING, April 11, 1843. 

 Dr. Patterson in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



The Natural History of British Shells, including figures 

 and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in 

 Great Britain, &c. 5 vols. 8vo. By E. Donovan, F. L. 

 S. London, 1804. From Mrs. Lucy W. Say. 



Ancient Egypt; her Monuments, Hieroglyphics, History 

 and Archaeology, and other subjects connected with 

 Hieroglyphical Literature. By George R. Gliddon, late 

 U. S. Consul at Cairo. New York, 1842. From the 

 Author. 



WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. 



Commnnications were read from the American Philoso- 

 phical Society, dated January 6, 1843, and from G. E. Den- 

 nis, Honorary Secretary of the London Botanical Society, 

 acknowledging the receipt of the Proceedings and other 

 publications of the Academy. 



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