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Stated Meeting, July 15, 1859. 



Present, six members. 



Dr. Franklin Bache, in the Chair. 



Letters were read, acknowledging the receipt of Nos. 57, ^% 

 of the Proceedings, from the Natural Hist. Society, Northum- 

 berland, dated Newcastle, JVIay 5, 1S59; the Batavian Society, 

 dated Rotterdam, March 7, 1859; the R. Saxon Society, dated 

 Leipsig, Feb. 14, 1859; — and a letter acknowledging the re- 

 ceipt of Transactions, Vol. II. III. IX. 3, from the Franklin 

 Institute, dated Philadelphia, June 16, 1859. 



Letters were read, announcing the transmission of donations 

 for the Library, from the Upper Hessia Society, dated Giessen, 

 March 30, 1859; the Central Phys. Observatory, dated St. 

 Petersburg, Dec. 29, 1859; the Russian Corps of Engineers, 

 dated St. Petersburg, March 1-13, 1859; Elia Lombardini, 

 dated Milan, April 13, 1858, and C. F. Loose}^, Austrian Consul 

 at New York, dated .luly 2, 1859. 



A letter was read from Isaac Hazlehurst, Esq., dated Phila. 

 June 22, 1859, resigning his membership in this Society. 



The following donations for the Library were announced: — 



Proc. Boston N. H. S. VII. 3, 4. Index, &c. — From the Society. 

 RadcliffObs. XVlIl. 1857. Ox['ov()^,i^bQ.— Frorn the R. Trustees. 

 Proc. Amer. Acad. IV. p. 89-248. Boston. — From the Acad. 

 Memoirs Amer. Acad. VI. 2. Boston. — From the same. 

 Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, July, 1859. N. Haven. — From the Eds. 

 Franklin Institute Journal, July, 1859. Philada. — From the Inst. 

 Amer. J. Med. Sciences, July, 1859. Phila. — From Blnnchard <S^ L. 

 Medical News and Lib. July, 1859. Phila. — From Blanchard t^^ L. 

 Proc. Elliott Soc. N. H. I. 1653-'58. Charleston.— From the Soc. 

 African Repository for July, 1859. Wash. — From A. Col. Society. 

 Concord Asylum for Insane. Report, June, 1859. — From the Trus. 

 Proc. R. Geog. Soc. London. Vol. III. No. 2. — From the Soc. 

 Monthly Not. R. Ast. Soc. London. XIX. No. 7. — From the Soc. 

 Trans. Amer. Inst. New York, 1853-57. Albany. 8vo. — Fro?n 



the Inst. 

 Astrm. Jour. No. 121. Albany. Index to V. — From Dr. Gould. 



