120 

 The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique d'Acclimation; fondee le 10 Fe- 

 vrier, 1854. No. 1. Mars, 1854. Paris. Sso.— From Col. J. 

 J. Abe?'t, U. S. Army. 



Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XV. No. 

 4. April, 1855. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 



The African Repository. Vol. XXXI. No. 4. April, 1 855. Wash- 

 ington. 8vo. — From the Am. Colonization Society. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XXIX. No. 4. 

 April, 1855. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 



Report of the Twenty-fourth Exhibition of American Manufactures 

 held in Philadelphia, from Nov. 14 to Dec. 2, 1854, by the Frank- 

 lin Institute: — with a Catalogue of the Articles deposited; — and 

 the Address delivered at the close of the Exhibition, by Thomas 

 Balch, Esq. Philadelphia, 1855. Hvo. — From the same. 



The Medical News and Library. Vol. XIII. No. 148. April, 1855. 

 Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Blanchard dj^ Lea. 



On Adipocire and its Formation. By Charles M. VVetherill, Ph. 

 D.M.D. (From Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Read Jan. 19, 1855.) 

 Philadelphia. 4to. — From the Author. 



Trlibner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature; being a 

 classified List of Books in all departments of Literature and Sci-- 

 ence, published in the United States of America during the last 

 forty years: — with an Introduction, Notes, &c. London, 185i5. 

 8vo. — From N. Tr'uhner ^ Co. 



Annual Reports of the Director of the U. S. Mint, Jan. 27, 1854, 

 and Jan. 30, 1855. Washington. 8vo. — From J. R. Snowden, 

 Esq., Director. 



A letter was read from Mr. Robert Patterson, dated Locust 

 street, April 20, 1855, transmitting, as a donation to the Soci- 

 ety, on the part of his mother, a portrait of her deceased hus- 

 band, Dr. Robert M. Patterson, late President of the Socie- 

 ty:— 



Whereupon, on motion of Mr. Fraley, it was unanimously 

 resolved that the Secretar}^ be directed to communicate the 

 thanks of the Society to Mrs. Patterson for her valuable dona- 

 lion. 



