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whilst they regret that it was not vouchsafed to him to succeed in the 

 great object for which the voyage was so philanlhropically and so 

 chivalrously undertaken, they assure him that it is to them a source 

 of gratification that the name of one of their fellow-members must 

 ever command an exalted position amongst those of the gallant and 

 enlightened adventurers who have succeeded, at so much risk and 

 privation, in extending the boundaries of knowledge into regions pre- 

 viously unexplored, and even deemed inaccessible. 



Dr. Le Conte called the attention of the meeting to a mort- 

 gaeje held by the Society on certain property: — and, on motion 

 of Prof. Frazer, the matter was referred to the Committee of 

 Finance, with authority to take such action as they shall think 

 proper, and to report at an early period. 



Staled Meeting, November 16. 



Present, twenty-eight members. 



Judge Kane, V^ice-President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. Albert Barnes, a recently elected member, was 

 presented and took his seat. 



Dr. Adamson and Mons. Carlier, members of corresponding 

 Societies, were introduced. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, dated 

 Sept. 3, 1S55, returning thanks for \ ol. X. Part 3, of the 

 Transactions of this Society: and — 



From the Zoological Society of London, dated Oct. 17, 

 1S55, announcing a donation for the library. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



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



15. Oct. 1855. Boston. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XXX. No. 5. 



Nov. 1855. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 



