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Dr. S. G. Morton. Memoir of William Maclure. 2d ed. 8vo. 

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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. IX., 

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0. Rich. Bibliotheca Americana Nova. 8vo. London, 1846. 

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Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. Vol. XX. 4to. Dub- 

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iS. Siceit. Sketches of Distinguished Men of Newbury and New- 

 buryport. No. 1. (Captain Moses Brown.) 8vo. pamph. Boston, 

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S. Borden. Tables of Bearings, &c., ascertained by the Trigono- 

 metrical Survey of Massachusetts. 8vo. pamph. Boston, 1846. From 

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Annuaire Magnetique et Meteorologique du Corps des Ingenieurs des 

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 1844. From the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburgh. 



Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at the Royal 

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Philosophical Transactions. Part 2, for 1845. From the Royal 

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Two hundred and eighty-fifth meeting. 



August 12th, 1846. — Q,uarterly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from the Mar- 

 quis of Northampton, accepting and acknowledging with much 

 courtesy his election as a Fellow of the Academy. 



Professor Peirce read the following astronomical commu- 

 nications from William Cranch Bond, A. M., Director of the 

 Cambridge Observatory. 



