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cards can be used and filed away. The weather reports in 

 the ''New York Times" are furnished by Mr. Becker's in- 

 strument. The Becker aneroid pile is essentially the same 

 wdiich Mr. Beaumont employs in his manufacture of steam 

 gauges and aneroid barometers, in Centre Street, New York. 

 Pending nominations Nos. 397 to 415 were read, and the 

 Society adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, July 20, 1860. 



Present, six members. 



Professor Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters acknowledging the reception of the last issue of 

 Transactions, Proceedings, Laws, and List of Members, were 

 read from the Royal Academy at Berlin, dated December 31, 

 1859 ; the Horticultural Society, Berlin, April 5 ; the Royal 

 Society, Edinburgh, April 28, 1859 ; the Massachusetts His- 

 torical Society, and Mr. EdAvard Everett, of Boston, June 16 ; 

 the Corporation of Harvard College, June 18 ; the American 

 Antiquarian Society, June 25 ; the Connecticut Historical 

 Society, Hartford, and Charles W. Polman, of New York, in 

 behalf of the Westeraas Library, in Sweden, June 20 ; the 

 New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, and the State Li- 

 brary, at Harrisburg, June 20; the Smithsonian Institution, 

 at Washington, dated March 16, March 21, and April 15, 

 and the Academy of Science, at St. Louis, June 23, 1860. 



Letters announcing donations were read from the Royal 

 Academy, Berlin, dated December 31 ; the Imperial Aca- 

 demy, Vienna, March, 1860 ; the Horticultural Society, at 

 Berlin, April 5, and W. C. H. Staring, of Harlem, January 

 16, 1860. 



