OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



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Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Board of Direction of the Mer- 

 cantile Library Association, Clinton Hall, New York. Jan., 1850. 

 8vo pampli. 



Neu Denkschriften der Allg. Schvveizerischen Gesellschaft fur die 

 gesammten Naturwissenschaften. Band. VII. -XIX. 4to. Neucha- 

 tel, 1845. 



On the Regio Cinnamomifera of the Ancients. By W. Desborough 

 Cooley. With Maps. Read before the Royal Geol. Soc. of London, 

 April, 1849. 8vo pamph. From the Hon. Edward Everett. 



On the Tertiary and more recent Deposits in the Island of Nantuck- 

 et. By E. Desor and E. C. Cabot. (In a Letter to Sir Charles Lyell, 

 Pres. Geol. Soc.) 8vo pamph. 1849. 



Edward Jarvis, M. D. Production of Vital Force. A Discourse 

 delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society, at their Annual 

 Meeting, May 30th, 1849. 8vo. Boston, 1849. From the Author. 



Three hundred and thirty-first meeting. 

 May 28, 1850. — Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Treasurer presented his annual report on the finances 

 of the Academy, accompanied by the certificate of the Auditor. 



Dr. Gould, from the Library Committee, and Dr. Gray, 

 from the Committee of Publication, made verbal reports. 



Mr. Everett moved resolutions of respect to the memory of 

 the late William Yaughan, Esq., of London, an Honorary 

 Member of the Academy, which were unanimously adopted. 



Professor Treadwell, from the Committee on Meteorological 

 Observations, read the following report : — 



" The committee appointed, in February last, to consider the sub- 

 ject of meteorological observations, respectfully ask leave to report, 

 that there are now in the possession of the Academy journals of ob- 

 servations, more or less complete, for the following periods : — 



" Professor Winthrop's Journal, from December 11th, 1742, to April 

 29th, 1779. 



" Professor Wigglesworth's Journal, from August 1st, 1780, to De- 

 cember 31st, 1789. Also for the year 1793. 



