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by the Society, and ordered to be signed by the proper officers 

 and transmitted to Congress. 



Stated Meeting, December 15. 



Present, twenty-one members. 



Dr. Franklin Bache, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Royal Academy of Sciences at Amsterdam, dated 

 7th September, 1S54, — and from the Royal Academy of Sci- 

 ences at Berlin, dated 9th September, 1854, — on transmitting 

 donations for the library: — 



From the Horticultural Society of London, dated Regent 

 street, November 7, 1854; — from the Royal Academy of Sci- 

 ences at Berlin, dated 9th September, 1854; — from the Libra- 

 rian of the Royal Library at Berlin, dated 14th November, 

 1854, — returning thanks for donations from this Society: — 



From W. Vrolik, Secretary of the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences at Amsterdam, dated 7th September, 1854, requesting 

 to be furnished with the volumes of the Old Series of the 

 Society's Transactions: — 



From W. H. de Vriese to Dr. Dunglison, dated Leyden, 

 13th October, 1854, proposing to send to the Society various 

 works, of which he is the author. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Bulletin de la Societe de Geographic. IV Serie. Tome VII. Paris. 



1854. 8vo. — F7'om the Society. 

 Annales des Mines. V. Serie. Tome V. Livraisons 1, 2 de 1854. 



Paris. 8vo. — F7'om the Engineers of VEcole des Mines. 

 Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van VVetenschappen. 



Eerste Deel. 4to. 

 Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Akademie van Wetenschappen. 



Eerste Deel. 1, 2, 3 Stuk; Tweede Deel, 1, 2 Stuk. Amster- 



