288 [August, 1S43. 



aid and information on the subject from the Academy. He 

 likewise announced that he had transmitted to the Academy 

 a set, nearly complete, of the Annual Reports of the Leeds 

 Philosophical Society. 



STATED MEETING, August 8, 1S43. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Plantes Nouvelles ou rares d'Amerique. Par Stephano Mo- 

 ricand. Livs. 1 to 7. 4to. Geneva. From the Author, in 

 exchange for duplicate copies of American works on sub- 

 jects of Natural History. 



Reliquiae Baldwinianae : Selections from the Correspondence 

 of William Baldwin, M. D. Compiled by William Dar- 

 lington, M. D. Philadelphia, 1843. From Dr. Darling- 

 ton. 



WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. 



A letter was read from the Secretary of the Royal Acade- 

 my of Sciences of Turin, dated June 9, 1843, acknowledging 

 the receipt of the Proceedings and other publications of the 

 Academy. 



Mr. George R. Gliddon read a short abstract of Dr. Lep- 

 sius's late discoveries in Egyptian Archaeology, especially 

 that of the labyrinth in the Fayoom, and those at the Mem- 

 phite Pyramids. 



BUSINESS BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION.' 



On motion of Mr. Phillips, the Publication Committee was 

 authorised to transmit to M. Moricand, of Geneva, a com- 

 plete copy of the Journal of the Academy, with the view to 

 an exchange for the Journal of the Geneva Society. 



