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holding the Courts therein: — which communication was re- 

 ferred to the Committee appointed in January last, to negoci- 

 ate with the City Councils in relation to a sale or exchange of 

 the Society's Hall. The Committee is instructed to report at 

 the next stated meeting. 



All other business having been concluded, the ballot boxes 

 were opened, and the following named gentleman was declared 

 to be duly elected a member of the Society. 



Robert E. Rogers, M.D. of Philadelphia. 



Stated Meeting, ndugust 17. 



Present, six members. 



The President and Vice-Presidents being absent, Mr. Justice 

 was called to the chair. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Plantse Javanicse Rariores, descriptse iconibusque illustratoe, quas in 

 Insula Java, annis 1802-1818 legit et investigavit The. Hors- 

 field, M.D. E siccis descriptiones et characteres plurimarum ela- 

 boravit Joannes J. Bennett : — Observatlones structuram et affinita- 

 tes proesertim respicientes passim adjecit Robertus Brown. Lon- 

 don, 1838-1852. Fol.— From Br, Thomas Horsfield. 



A Catalogue of Birds in the Museum of the Hon. East India Compa- 

 ny. Vol. I. London, 1854. 8vo. — Fro7n the Hon. Directors of 

 the East India Company. 



Annalcs des Mines. V. Seric. Tome VI. 3 livraison de 1854. Pa- 

 ris. 8vo. — From the Engineers of VEcole des Mines. 



Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society. Vol. VII. No. 30. July, 

 1855. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XXX. No. 2. 

 Aug. 1855. Philadelphia. 8vo. — Froin the Institute. 



An Examination of Prof. Agassiz's Sketch of the Natural Provinces 

 of the Animal World, and their relation to the different Types of 

 Man, — with a Tableau accompanying the Sketch. By John 

 Bachman, D.D. Charleston, 1855. 8vo. — From the Author, 



