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notices of the meetings sent to all members residing within 

 ten miles of the Hall of the Society, with appended notes, 

 stating the business, stated or special, of the meeting to be 

 held, which was agreed to. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, December 7th, 1860. 



Present, twenty-eight members. 



Professor Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters acknowledging the receipt of the Society's publi- 

 cations were received from the Society of Antiquaries, dated 

 London, November 16th ; and from the Historical Society of 

 Pennsylvania, dated Philadelphia, November 26th, 1860. 



A letter was received from the Royal Academy, dated 

 Lisbon, January 1 9th, 1858, announcing the transmission of 

 thirty-two volumes of their publications. 



A letter from G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal, dated 

 Greenwich, October 20, 1860, was read, furnishing a list of 

 the publications of the observatory, from which deficiencies 

 in the series may be supplied. 



A letter from the President, Dr. G. B. Wood, was read, 

 dated Paris, November 5th, 1860, giving information of a 

 new Society (La Socidt^ de I'Anthropologie de Paris), and 

 the donation of its first publications. On motion of the 

 Librarian, that Society, and the Socidte Academique de 

 I'Aube, at Troyes, w^ere ordered to be placed on the list of 

 corresponding societies. 



The following donations for the Library were announced : 



Bulletins, Soc. d' Anthropologic. T. I; i, ii. Paris, 1859 '60. 8vo. 

 Memoires de la meme. T. I ; i. 1860. 8vo. — From Dr. Wood. 

 Essai sur la theorie de la variation diur. barom., sur la const, de I'cther, 



&c. (Soc. Acad, de I'Aubc), Par. C.-L. Henry. Troyes. 1860. 



8vo. — From the Author. 



