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A letter was read, announcing a donation for the Library, 

 from tiie Smitlisonian InslitiUion, dated Washington, March 

 IS, 1359. 



A letter was read from G. A. Matile, consul of Belgium, 

 dated New York, April 11, 1859,, requesting to know if there 

 were missing numbers of the publications of the R. Acad, 

 which he could supj)ly from copies in his possession. 



The following donations for the Librai'v were announced: — 



Proceedings R. Geon;. Soc. London. III. 1. 1859. — From the Soc. 

 An. Report, Leeds Phil, and L. S., 38th. 1851-S.— From the Soc. 

 Proc. West Riding Geol. and P. S., 1857-8. Leeds.— From the Soc, 

 Sensorial Vision, by Sir J. F. VV. Herschei. Leeds. (16 pp.) 8vo. 



— From the same. 

 Comets ... by Christ. Kemplay. Leeds, 1859. (118 pp.) 8vo. 



- — From the Anther. 

 China and its Trade, by J. Crawford. London, 1858. (24 pp.) 8vo. 



— From the Author. 

 African Repository. April, 1859. — From Am. Col. Society. 

 Pacific Ex. Ex. Vol. IX. Senate Doc. 13, pt. 9. Wash. 1858.— 



From U. S. Govern?nent. 

 Same, published as an Executive Document. — From U. S. Gov. 

 Smithson. Cont. to Know ledge. Vol. X. Wash. — From the Inst. 

 Soiling of Cattle, &c., by Jos. Quiney. Bosion, 1859. (64 pp.) 



8vo. — From the Author. 

 Scarlet Fever, by C. Morris, M.D. Phil. 1 858. (190 pp.) 8vo.— 



From the Author. 



Dr. Bridges, chairman of the committee to which the paper 

 of Mr. Durand was referred, reported a recommendation that 

 the paper t)e j)iiblished; and on motion of Dr. Bache, it was 

 ordered to be printed, and the committee was discharged. 



The decease of Robert Walsh, a member of the Society, at 

 Paris, on the 7th February last, aged 76 years, was announced 

 by Dr. F. Bache. 



Mr. Lesley called attention to the notice of two violent 

 storms, in the diary of the Plymouth Colonists, in 1620, as 

 occurring at an intervnl of fourteen days; and suggested that a 

 search into such early records of the weather of the Atlantic 

 coast, would probably furnish sufficient evidence of the con- 



