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Stated Meeting, Spril 7. 



Present, nine members. 

 Dr. Franklin Bache, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Corporation of Harvard College, dated Cambridge, 

 Feb. 13, 1S54, returning acknowledgments for Part 3, Vol. X: 

 of the Transactions, — and for No. 50 of the Proceedings of 

 the Society: — 



From the Librarian of the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory, dated Boston, March 27, 1854, returning thanks for sun- 

 dry Parts of the Transactions and Nos. of the Proceedings, 

 which were wanting to complete the series in the library of that 

 Society: and — 



From the Secretary of I'Ecole des Mines, dated Paris, 30th 

 Nov. 1853, accompanying a donation for the library. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Annales des Mines. V. Serie. Tome IV. 4 Hvraison de 1853. Paris. 

 8vo. — From the Engineei's of VEcole des Mines. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Nos. 20, 21, 

 Jan. Feb. 1 854. Boston. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Researches upon Nemerteans and Planarians. By Charles Girard. 

 I. Embryonic Development of Planocera Elliptica. Philadelphia, 

 1854. 4to. — From the Author. 



American Journal of the Medical Sciences. No. LIV. New Series. 

 April, 1854. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Dr. Isaac Hays, Edi- 

 tor. 

 ^The Medical News and Library. Vol. XII. No. 136. April, 1854. 

 Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Blanchard ^ Lea. 



Report of the Auditor General on the Finances of the Commonwealth 

 of Pennsylvania, for the year ending Nov. 30, 1853. Harris- 

 burg. 8vo. — From M. W. Baldivin, Esq. « 



Astronomical Journal. Vol. III. Nos. 20, 21. March 16, April 3, 

 1854. Cambridge. 4to. — From Dr. B. A Gould, jr. Editor. 



The Plough, the Loom and the Anvil. Vol. VIT. No. 3. March, 1854. 

 New York. 8vo. — From the Editors. 



