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Stated Meeting, November 17. 

 Present, eight members. 

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

 . The following donations were announced v — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XIV. 



No. 9. Supplemental. London. Swo.—From the Society. 

 Report on the Iron and Coal of Pennsylvania : by Dr. C. M. Weth- 



erill. 4to. 

 Description of an Apparatus for Organic Analysis by Illuminating 

 Gas; — and on the use of Gas in Experimental Laboratories: by 

 Dr. C. M. Wetherill. Philadelphia, 1854. 8vo. 

 Examination of the Gas of the Philadelphia Gas Works. — Descrip- 

 tion of an Apparatus for Broiling by Gas-heat: by Dr. C. M. 

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

 Recollections of Europe in 1854: Professor Robley Dunglison's In- 

 troductory Lecture, delivered in the Jefferson Medical College, 

 October 9, 1854. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Author. 

 The Medical News and Library. Vol. XII. No. 143. November, 



1854. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Blanchard 6^ Lea. 

 Astromomical Journal. Vol. IV. No. 5. Nov. 10, 1854. Cam- 

 bridge. 4to. — From the Editor. 

 The African Repository. Vol. XXX. No. 11. November, 1854. 

 Washington. 8vo. — From the American Colonization Society. 

 Prof. Kendall asked to be excused from the task of pre- 

 paring a notice of the scientific labours of the astronomers 

 Bessel and Schumacher, to which he was some time since ap- 

 pointed ; — and, on motion of Prof Frazer, he was excused. 



Judge Kane called the attention of the Society to the in- 

 tended course and probably present condition of the American 

 Exploring Expedition to the Arctic regions. The failure of 

 the expedition to return at the expected time has excited 

 anxiety with regard to their safety, and renders it desirable 

 that some effort should be made to trace their steps and acquire 

 intelligence concerning their welfare. 



