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Stated Meeting, May IS. 



Present, ten members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna, dated 

 Dec. 27, 1S54: — from the Royal Society of London, dated 

 Jan. 25, lS5v5; and — from the Linnean Society, dated London, 

 Nov. 10, 1854— returning thanks for Vol. X. Part 3, of the 

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

 ciety : — 



From the Batavian Society of Experimental Sciences at 

 Rotterdam, dated Dec. 13, 1854, acknowledging the receipt of 

 the Transactions, Vol. X. Part 3, and of No. 49 of the Pro- 

 ceedings. 



From the Bavarian Royal Academy of Sciences, dated Mu- 

 nich, Dec. 20, 1854, returning acknowledgments for Vol. X. 

 Part 3, of the Transactions, and Nos. 49, 50, of the Proceed- 

 ings, — and also announcing a donation for the Library of the 

 Society: and — 



From the Etat Major of the Corps of Mining Engineers of 

 Russia, dated St. Petersburgh, May 1, 1854; and— from the 

 Ethnological Society of London, dated Jan. 1, 1855, accompa- 

 nying donations for the Library. 



A letter was also read from the Royal Society of Sciences 

 at Gottingen, as follows: — 



To the American Philosophical Society, at Philadelphia: — 



On the night of February 23, at one o'clock, Charles Frederick 

 Gauss closed, in the 78th year of his age, his renowned earthly ca- 

 reer. Since the year 1802, the Royal Society of Sciences has with 

 pride called him its own, and is now plunged in the deepest grief by 

 the great and irreparable loss of its honoured oldest member and for- 

 mer director. 



The universal respect and admiration enjoyed by this great mathe- 

 matician, astronomer and physicist, warrant a kind participation with 

 the Society in their just sorrow. 



