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Curators, 



Franklin Peale, 



John C. Ciesson, 



M. Fisher Longstreth. 



Treasurer, 

 Charles B. Trego. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Geological Society of London, dated Somerset 

 House, Nov. 2, 1S54, returning thanks for Vol. X. Part 3, of 

 the Transactions, and Nos. 49, 50, of the Proceedings of this 

 Society: and — 



From A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the United States 

 Coast Survey, dated Washington, Oct. 10, 1854, accompanying 

 a donation for the Library. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. No. 40, Vol. X. Part 4. 

 London, Nov. 1854. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Rapports presentes au Conseil General de I'Asile des Aveugles de Lau- 

 sanne, par le Comite, le Medecin et le Directeur de cet etablisse- 

 ment, pour les annees, 1850, 1851, 1852. 



Rapport du Comite de I'Asile des Aveugles de Lausanne, pour I'annee 

 1853, presente au Conseil General de cet etablissement. Lau- 

 sanne. 8vo. — From the Committee of the Blind of Lausanne. 



American Journal of Science and Arts. Second Series. Vol. XIX. 

 No. 55. January, 1855. New Haven. 8vo. — From Profs. 

 Silliman <S^ Dana, Editors-^ 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. V. Nos. 

 2, 3, 4, 5. Oct. Nov. 1854. Boston. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York : 

 edited by E. B. O'Callaghan, M.D. Vol. IV. Albany, 1854. 

 4to. — From the Trustees of N. Y. State Library. 



United States Coast Survey Maps, as follows: General Chart of the 

 Coast from Gay Head to Cape Henlopen. — Wellfleet Harbour, 

 Massachusetts. — Mouth of Connecticut River. — San Diego Bay, 

 California. — Bay of Monterey, California. — Alden's Reconnais- 

 sance Chart, Western Coast, from San Diego to San Francisco, 

 California. — Santa Barbara, California. — Reconnaissance from 



