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1853. IV Jahrgang, No. 3. Jul. Aug. Sept. Wien. 4to.— 

 From the Imperial Royal Geological Institvte, Vienna. 

 Report of the Hon. James Meacham, of the Special Committee of 

 the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, on the 

 Distribution of the Income of the Smithsonian Fund, &c. Wash- 

 ington, 1854. 8vo. — From Hon. D. Stuart, M. C. 

 Notes on the Gulf Stream: by A. D. Bache, Superintendent U. S. 



Coast Survey. (Revised to 1854.) — Frojn the Author. 

 The Astronomical Journal. Vol. III. No. 24. Vol. IV. Nos. 1,2. 



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

 The Medical News and Library. Vol. XII. No. 140. Aug. 1854. 



Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Blanchard <Sf Lea. 

 The Plough, the Loom and the Anvil. Vol. VII. No. 1. July, 1854. 

 New York. 8vo. — From Myron Finch, Esq., Editor. 

 Dr. Bache announced the decease of William M'llvaine, a 

 member of the Society, who died on the 9th inst., aged 68 : — 

 And, on motion, Mr. George Ord was requested to prepare 

 an obituary notice of the deceased member. 



Judge Kane, from the committee appointed some time since 

 to provide better accommodations for the Society's library, 

 made a verbal report in reference to that subject, and gave 

 reasons for the apparent delay of the committee: — Whereupon, 

 it was, on motion, resolved. That the committee have discre- 

 tionary power to suspend action, as in their judgment shall be 

 deemed expedient. 



The Society of the Museum of Natural History, of Stras- 

 burg, was ordered to be placed on the list of corresponding 

 Societies. 



Stated Meeting, September 15. 



Present, fourteen members. 



Dr. DuNGLisoN, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Benjamin Gerhard, a recently elected member, was 

 introduced and took his seat. 



