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The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Vol. XXI. Part 2, 

 for Session of 1854-5. 4to. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of ]^^dinburgh. Vol. III. No. 45. 

 1854-5. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Bulletin de la Societe de Geographic. IV. Serie. Tome IX. Paris, 

 1855. SMo.—From the Snclet.y. 



Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York: 

 procured in Holland, England and Franco, by John Romeyn 

 Broadhead, Esq. Agent, &c. Edited by E. B. O'Callaghan, M.D. 

 Vol. IX. Albany, 1855. 4to. — From the Regents of the Univer- 

 sity of the State of New York. 



Report on Insanity and Idiocy in Massachusetts, by the Commission 

 on Lunacy, under the resolve of the Legislature of 1854. Boston, 

 1855. 8vo. — From Dr. Edward Jarvis. 



Catalogue of Books in Astor Library, relating to the Languages and 

 Literature of Asia, Africa, and the Oceanic Islands. New York, 

 1854. 8vo.— From J. G. Cogswell, Esq. 



Our Country's Mission in History; An Address delivered at the An- 

 niversary of the Philomathean Society of Pennsylvania College, 

 Sept. 19, 1855. By William H. Allen, LL.D. President of the 

 Girard College for Orphans. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Au- 

 thor. 



The Medical News and Library. Vol. XIII. No. 155. Nov. 1855. 

 Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Blanchard 6f Lea. 



Description of a portion of the lower jaw and a tooth of the Mastodon 

 Andium; — also of a tooth and fragment of the femur of a 

 Mastodon from Chile. By Jeffries Wyman. 4to. — From the Au- 

 thor. 



Nineteenth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Young 

 Men's Association of the City of Buffalo; — also, Record of the 

 Proceedings of the Association. Buffalo, 1855. 8vo. — From the 

 Association. 



Dr. Dunglison beinfr in the chair, the following resolution 

 was offered, on his behalf, by Dr. Franklin Bache, — which 

 was read and adopted: — 



Resolved, That this Society do offer their heart-felt congratulations 

 to Dr. Kane, on his safe return from his hazardous expedition, — and 



