PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. VI. MAV—DECEMBER, 1855. ' No. 54. 



Staled Meeting, May 4. 



Present, twelve members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. Dr. E. P. Rogers, a recently elected member, was 

 introduced and took his seat. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Rev. E. P. Rogers, dated Philadelphia, April 

 23, — and from Samuel Powel, dated Newport, R. I. April 25, 

 1855, acknowledging the receipt of notice of their election as 

 members of the Society : — 



From the Royal Society of Edinburgh, dated Dec. 12, 1854, 

 returning thanks for Vol. X. Part 3, of the Transactions, and 

 for No. 50 of the Proceedings of this Society: and — 



From the Boston Society of Natural History, dated x^pril 

 12, 1855, returning acknowledgments for sundry Parts of the 

 Transactions and Nos. of the Proceedings, which were want- 

 ing to complete the series in their library. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Vol. XXI. Part 1, 



for the session 1853-4. 4to. 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Vol. III. No. 44. 



1853-4. 8vo. — From the Society, 

 Report of the Superintendent of the U. S. Coast Survey, showing 



the progress of the Survey during the year 1853. Washington. 



8vo.— From A. D. Bache, Sup. U. S. C. S, 



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