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roofs of houses, chimney tops, and other elevated places, in 

 the city itself, during the very severe weather of January. 



As this is a bird almost exclusively confined to extreme 

 northern latitudes, its appearance here, in such large num- 

 bers, is to be solely attributed to the great severity of the 

 season to the North, 



Stated Meeting, March 12, 1S44. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Report of a Committee of the Delaware County Institute of 

 Science, on the great rain storm and flood which occurred 

 in that County on the 5th of August, 1S43 ; with a Map 

 of the County. Chester: 1843. From the Institute. 



Memoirs of William Smith, L. L. D. &c; by his nephew and 

 pupil, John Phillips, F. R. S. &c. London: 1S44. From 

 the Author. 

 The Committee on Proceedings announced that the First 



No. of Vol. 2d of the Proceedings, with the title page and 



index of the first volume, (which latter is now complete,) had 



been published, and was now on the table. 



The Chairman read a letter from Dr. Charles Pickering, 

 dated Alexandria, Egypt, December 17, 1S43, announcing 

 his safe arrival, and communicating some information on the 

 subject of ethnography, which, after a further examination 

 of facts in confirmation of his present impressions, he will 

 submit to the Academy in a more enlarged form at a future 

 period. 



On motion of the Recording Secretary, the Committee on 

 Proceedings were authorized to have reprinted No. 2 of Vol. 

 I., and also to have bound in boards a number of copies of 

 said volume. 



