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Oversigt over det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhand- 

 linger og dets Medlemmers Arbeider i Aaret 1853. Kiobenhavn. 

 8vo. — From the Royal Danish Society of Sciences. 



Reclamation contre " la generation alternante et la digenese," — com- 

 munication faite a I'Academie de Bruxelles, par le Prof. P. J. 

 von Beneden. Par J. J. Sm. Steenstrup, Prof. Zool. Univ. Co- 

 penhague. Copenhague, 1854. 8vo. — From the Author, 



Theorie der Sonnenfinsternisse, der Durchgange der imteren Plane- 

 ten vor der Sonne und der Sternbedeckungen fiir einen gegebenen 

 Ort der Erde: von Dr. J. A. Grunert. Wien, 1854. 8vo. — 

 From the Author. 



Archives de Physiologic de Therapeutique et de Hygiene: sous la 

 direction de M. Bouchardat, Prof, de Hygiene, &c. No. 1. Jan. 

 1854. Memoire sur la Digitaline et la Digitale : par E. Ho- 

 molle et T. A. Quevenne. Paris. 8vo. — Donor unknoicn. 



Regulations of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich: — and Report of 

 the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors, June 3, 1854. 

 London. 4to. — From the Observatory. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 Vol. VIII. No. 5. Philadelphia, 1854. 8vo.— From the Aca- 

 demy. 



An Address in Commemoration of Sears Cook Walker, delivered 

 before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 April 29, 1854, by B. A. Gould, Jr. Cambridge. 8yo.— From 

 the Author. 



Official Army Register for 1854: published by order of the Secre- 

 tary of War, January 1, 1854. Washington. 8vo. — i^ro7« 

 Major Hartman Bache. 



The Plough, the Loom and the Anvil. Vol. VIII. No. 5. Nov. 

 1854. New York. 8vo. — From the Editor. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XXVIII. No. 

 5. Nov. 1854. Philadelphia. 1854.— jPro77i the Institute. 



Judge Kane, pursuant to appointment at a former meeting, 

 read an obituary notice of the late Dr. Robert M. Patterson. 



Dr. Robert Maskeil Patterson, was born in the City of Philadelphia 

 on the 23d of March, 1787. His father was Doctor Robert Patterson, 

 at that time professor of mathematics in the University of Pennsylva- 

 nia, and afterwards distinguished as the director of the United States' 

 Mint, and as President of this Society. His mother was of the Ewing 



