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Letters were read: — 



From the Literary Society of Funen, dated Odense, 3d 

 April, 1853, announcing a donation for the Society's library ; — 



From the Corporation of Harvard College, dated Cambridge, 

 July 22, 1854, returning acknowledgment for No. 51 of the 

 Proceedings of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie. IV. Serie. Tome VI. Paris, 



1853. 8vo. — From the Society, 



Aktstykker til Nordens Historic i Grevefeidens Tid. Af Danske og 

 fremmede Archiver. Samlede og udgivne af Fyens Stiffs Lile- 

 reere Selskab. I. Samling, 1, 2, 3 Hefte. Odense, 1850-52.— 

 From the Literary Society of Funen. 



Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society. Vol. VII. No. 2. July, 



1854. London. 8vo. — From the Society, 



The African Repository. Vol. XXX. No. 9. Sept. 1854. Wash- 

 ington. 8vo. — From the American Colonization Society, 



Prodrome de la Classification des Reptiles Ophidiens. Par M. Du- 

 meril. (Mem. Acad. Sci. Tome XXIII. Nov. 1852.) Paris. 

 4to. — Frojn the Author. 



The Florist and Horticultural Journal: a Monthly Magazine of Horti- 

 culture, Agriculture, Botany, Agricultural Chemistry, Ento- 

 mology, &c. H. C. Hanson, Editor. Vol. III. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 

 5. Philadelphia. 8vo. — F?'om the Editor, 



The Dispensatory of the United States of America. By George B. 

 Wood, M. D., &c. &c., and Franklin Bache, M. D., &c. &c. 

 Tenth Edition, carefully revised. Philadelphia, 1854. 8vo.— 

 From Dr. F. Bache, 



The Medical News and Library. Vol. XII. No. 141. Sept. 1854. 

 Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Blanchard ^ Lea, 



The Plough, the Loom and the Anvil. Vol. VII. No. 2. Aug. 1854. 

 New York. 8vo. — From the Editor, 



The Cape Verde and Flatteras Hurricane of Aug. and Sept. 1853, 

 with a Hurricane Chart, and Notices of various Storms in the 

 Atlantic and Pacific Oceans north of the Equator. By W. C. 

 Redfield. (Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, Vol. XVIII. 1854.) New 

 Haven. 8vo. — From the Author, 



American Journal of Science and Arts. Second Scries. Vol. XVIII. 

 No. 53. Sept. 1854. New Haven. 8vo. — From Professors 

 Silliman 6^ Dana, Editors. 



