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The Ibllowino; donations were announced:- 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Vol. XIV. No. 

 3. Jan. 18, 1854. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute: Vol. XXVII. No. 3. March, 1854. 

 Philadelphia. 8vo. — Frovi the Institute. 



The African Repository: Vol. XXX. No. 2. Feb. 1854. Washing- 

 ton. 6vo. — From the American Colonization Society. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia : 

 Vol. VII. No. 1. Jan. Feb. 1854. Philadelphia. Sso.— From 

 the Academy. 



Additional Notes of a Discussion of Tidal Observations, made in con- 

 nection with the Coast Survey at Cat Island, Louisiana. By Prof. 

 A. D. Bache, Superintendent U. S. Coast Survey. (Am. Jour. 

 Sci. and Arts. Vol. XIV.) New Haven, 1853. — From the Au- 

 thor. 



Professor Dungjlison's Charoje to the Graduates of Jefferson Medical 

 College, of Philadelphia, March 11, 1854: with a list of the Gra- 

 duates. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Author. 



Eight Pamphlets, consisting of Reports, &c. illustrative of the Statis- 

 tics of Population, Education, Prisons, Insanity, Insurance, &c. 

 in Massachusetts. 8vo. — From Dr. Edward Jarvis. 



Dr. Franklin Bache announced the decease of Gotthelf 

 Fisher, of Moscow, a member of this Society, wIto died Oct. 

 18, 1853, aged 83. 



Judge Kane called tlie attention of the members to the in- 

 tended visit to Europe of Dr. Dunglison, one of the Vice-Pre- 

 sidents of the Society, — and moved the following minute and 

 resolution, which were read, considered and adopted: 



It having been announced that Dr. Robley Dunglison, a Vice-Pre- 

 sident of this Society, is about to visit Europe with the purpose of 

 making himself familiar with the Scientific and Literary Institutions 

 of Great Britain and the nations of the Continent; — it was 



Resolved^ That Dr. Dunglison be requested to communicate, on 

 behalf of the Society, with such of its foreign correspondents as he 

 may have occasion to visit; — and that the Secretary be instructed to 

 invite lor him suc^h aifl as may conduce to iho aftainnient of the object 

 he has in view. 



