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Ur. Franklin Bache, President of the Society, reported that 

 being unable to attend the celebration of the semi-centennial 

 anniversary of the New York Historical Society, to be held 

 on the 20th instant, he had appointed Judge Kane, one of the 

 Vice-Presidents, as a representative. 



On motion of Prof. Frazer, a committee consisting of Prof. 

 Frazer, Judge Kane and Mr. Trego, was appointed to prepare 

 and submit to the Society a memorial to Congress, requesting 

 that an expedition may be sent to the Arctic seas with a view 

 of obtaining intelligence concerning the American exploring 

 party now in that portion of the globe. The committee is 

 also authorized to correspond with other Societies in relation 

 to the subject. 



Stated Meeting, December 1. 



Present, twenty members. 



Dr. Franklin Bache, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna, dated 

 28th October, 1853 ;— from the Royal Danish Society of 

 Sciences, dated Copenhagen, 27th April, 1854; — from the 

 Royal Society of Sciences at Gottingen, dated 2d July, 1854, — 

 acknowledging the reception of Transactions and Proceedings 

 of this Society : — 



From the Imperial Academy at Vienna, dated April 3, and 

 July 18, 1854; — from the Natural History Association of Rhe- 

 nish Prussia and Westphalia, dated Bonn, 25th August, 1854; 

 — from the Royal Danish Society of Sciences, dated Copen- 

 hagen, 27th March, 1854, — severally announcing the trans- 

 mission of donations for the library: — 



From the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, dated Mu- 

 nich, 30th July, 1854, accompanying a donation, and request- 

 ing to be supplied with some missing numbers of the Society's 

 Proceedings. 



