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Stated Meeting, September 21. 



Present, twenty-four members. 



Dr. DuNGLisoN, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From Dr. Robert E. Rogers, dated Boston, Aug. 31, 1855, 

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

 ber of tiie Society: — 



From the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, dated 

 24th July, 1855, announcing that the said Society will cele- 

 brate the fiftieth anniversary of its existence, by a formal and 

 extraordinary session on the 23d of December next: and — 



From the Proprietors of the Rowditch Library, dated Bos- 

 ton, Sept. 15, 1855, returning thanks for Nos. 47 to 53, of the 

 Proceedings of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Report of the Commissioner of Patents, for the year 1854. Arts and 



Manvfacfvres. Vols. 1, 2. Washington. 8vo. — From the U.S. 



Patent Office. 

 Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Vol. VII. Washington, 



1855. 4to. — From the Smithsonian Institvtion. 

 Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. V. No. 



13. July, 1S55. Boston, 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Scipnces of Philadelphia. 



Vol. VII. No. 10. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Academy. 

 Journal of the Franklin Institute. 3d Series. Vol. XXX. No. 3. Sept. 



1855. Philadelphia. 8vo. From the Institute. 



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



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

 African Repository. Vol. XXXI. No. 9. Sfpt. 1855. Washington. 



8vo. — From the Am. Colon'zafion Society. 

 Revue de Paris: Feb. 1, to July 1, 1855. Paris. 8vo. — F?'om M. 



Hector Bossange. 

 American Journal of Science and Arts. 2d Scries. Vol. XX. No. 59. 



Sept. 1855. New Haven. 8vo. — From the Editors. 



