182 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History, New York. Vol. IV., 

 Nos. 10, 11. 8vo. 1847. From the Lyceum. 



Flora, oder AUgemeine Bot. Zeitung. 7 Nos. Svo. 1843-46. 

 From the Bot. Society of Ratisbon. 



Magnetische und Meterologische Beobachtungen zu Prag. 6-7'" 

 Jahrg. 1845-6. 4to. Prague, 1846- 7. From the Observatory of 

 Prague. 



Karl Kriel. Magnetische und Geographische Ortbestimmungen in 

 Bohmen, Jahren 1843-5. 4to. Prague, 1846. From the Author. 



Abhandlungen der Historischen Classe der Konigl. Bayerscheu 

 Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Miinchen. Band IV., t. 3. 1846. 

 — Abhand. der Philos.-Philolog. CI. Band IV., t. 3. 1847. 4to. 

 From the Royal Bavarian Academy. 



Lasaulx. Ueber das Studium der Griechischen und Romischen Al- 

 terthumer. 4to. pamph. Munchen, 1846. From the Author. 



James P. Espy. Report on Meteorology to the Surgeon-General. 

 4to. pamph. Washington, 1843. From the Author. 



Annual Reports of the Regents of the University of the State of 

 New York, from 1846 to 1837 inclusive. 8vo. From the Regents. 



Journal of the American Oriental Society. Vol. I., Part 3. Svo. 

 1847. From the Society. 



Sir John F. W. Herschel. Results of Astronomical Observations 

 made during the Years 1834 - 8, at the Cape of Good Hope. 4to. 

 London, 1847. From the Duke of Northumberland, by the Author. 



Report of the Sixteenth Meeting of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, held at Southampton in 1846. 8vo. Lon- 

 don, 1847. From the Association. 



Two Hundred and ninety-nintli Meeting. 



November 2, 1847. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Letters were read from the Rev. Dr. Whewell, and John C. 

 Adams, Esq., of Cambridge University, in acknowledgment 

 of their election as Foreign Honorary Members of the Acade- 

 my ; also from Professor Edward Robinson, of New York, as 

 a Corresponding Member. 



Mr. Bond communicated his observations, made at the Ob- 



