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The Society proceeded to the stated business of the meet- 

 ing, the balloting for candidates for membership. 



All other business being concluded, the ballot box was ex- 

 amined by the presiding officer, and William Parker 

 FouLKE, of Philadelphia, was declared to be duly elected a 

 member of the Society. 



Stated Meeting, November 13. 



Present, sixteen members. 



Dr. Franklin Bache, President, in the Chair. 



William Parker Foulke, a recently elected member, was 

 introduced and took his seat. 



Letters were read: — 



From C. A. Dohrn, dated Stettin, 6th October, 1854, ac- 

 knowledging the receipt of notice of his election as a member 

 of the Society : — 



Fiom the Holland Society of Sciences, dated Haarlem, July, 

 1854, announcing a donation for the library, and returning 

 thanks for Part 2, Vol. X. of the Transactions of this So- 

 ciety: — 



From the Society of Antiquaries, dated Somerset House, 

 London, 26th June, 1854, and from the Cambridge Philo- 

 wsophical Society, dated Cambridge, February, 1854, — both 

 announcing donations for the library: — 



From the Association for the Promotion of Horticulture in 

 Prussia, dated Berlin, 25th September, 1854, announcing a do- 

 nation for the library, and proposing an exchange of publica- 

 tions with this Society: — 



From a Committee of the New York Historical Society, 

 dated September 12, 1854, inviting attendance, on the part of 

 this Society, at the celebration of their semi-centennial anni- 

 versary on the 20th November, 1854 : — 



From Lieut. M. F. JNIaury, dated National Observatory, 

 Washington, Oct. 21, 1854, announcing the discovery there of a 

 new asteroid, by Mr. James Ferguson, Assistant Astronomer, 



