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Stated Meeting, February 2. 



Present, ten members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Zoological Society of London, dated Oct. 23, 

 1854; from the Society of Antiquaries, dated London, Nov. 

 17, 1854; from the Royal Asiatic Society, dated Nov. 18, 

 1854; from the Royal Society of Sciences at Amsterdam, 

 dated Dec. 5, 1854; — severally acknowledging the receipt of 

 Transactions and Proceedings of this Society: — 



From the Trustees of the State Library of New York, dated 

 Albany, Jan. 27, 1855, — and from the Connecticut Historical 

 Society, dated Hartford, Jan. 30, 1855, returning thanks for 

 No. 52 of the Proceedings: — 



From Prof. Zantedeschi, of Padua, dated Dec. 7, 1854, ac- 

 companying a donation of some of his works for the Society's 

 library. 



From Prof. A. D. Bache, dated Capitol Hill, Washington, 

 Jan. 21, 1855, acknowledging the receipt of notice of his elec- 

 tion as President of the Society: and — 



From Prof. S. F. Baird, dated Washington, Jan. 22, 1855, 

 acknowledging the receipt of notice of his election as a mem- 

 ber. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Vol. VII. Nos. 5, 6. 

 June 15, 1854. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Astronomical and Magnetical and Meteorological Observations, made 

 at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the year 1852, under 

 the direction of George Biddell Airy, Esq., M.A., Astronomer 

 Royal. London, 1854. 4to. 



Description of the Transit Circle of the Royal Observatory, Green- 

 wich. 4to. 



Regulations of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 4to. 



