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transmitted to Prof. Von Martins, as Secretary of the Bava- 

 rian Academy, had not been received by the latter, and re- 

 questing attention to it ; and also containing a portion of a 

 letter from A. De Candolle, proposing to the Academy an 

 exchange of its Journal with him for the Memoirs of the 

 " Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve." 



Also, a letter from Mr. Henry Cramer, dated St. Peters- 

 burg, 1st of May, 1S43, referring to a recent donation for- 

 warded by him to the Academy, of the Transactions of the 

 Imperial Mineralogical Society of Russia, and requesting a 

 copy of the Journal of the Academy for that Society. 



Whereupon, on motion of Mr. Phillips, it was 

 Resolved, That a copy of the Journal be transmitted to the 

 Imperial Mineralogical Society of Russia. 



STATED MEETING, December 12, 1843. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Fossil fern impressions, from Pottsville, Pennsylvania. From 

 Mr. Stephen Taylor, Jr. 



Sandstone from the Quarries of Hadjur Silsilis, and Sy- 

 enite from Syene in Egypt. From Mr. George R. Gliddon. 



A small collection of insects from the vicinity of Philadelphia. 

 From Mr. R. Kilvington. 



Two specimens, in spirits, of Pholas truncata, with the ani- 

 mal attached, from New York Bay. From Dr. J. C. Jay, 

 of New York. 



