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Stated Meeting, March 7. 



Present, twenty-two members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From tlie Geological Society, of London, dated Somerset 

 House, Nov. 22, 1855, returning thanks for Nos. 51, 52 of the 

 Proceedings of this Society: — 



From the Trustees of the Boston Athenseum, dated Boston, 

 Feb. 2; — and from the Smithsonian Institution, dated Wash- 

 ington, Feb. 10, 1856, acknowledging the receipt of No. 54 

 of the Proceedings. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



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



18. Boston. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 The African Repository. Vol. XXXII. No. 2. Feb. 1856. Wash- 



ington. 8vo. — From the Am. Colonization Society. 

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



3. Jan. 11, 1856. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Twenty-first Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Young 



Men's Library Association of Cincinnati, for the year 1855. Cin- 

 cinnati. 8vo. — From the Association. 

 Official Army Register for 1856: published by order of the Secretary 



of \V^ar. Washington. 8vo. — From S. Cooper, Adjutant Ge- 

 neral. 

 Report of the Superintendent of the U. S. Coast Survey, showing the 



progress of the Survey during the year 1854. Washington. 



8vo. — From the Hon. J. R. Tyson. 

 The American Journal of Science and Arts. Second Series. Vol. XXI. 



No. 62. March, 1856. New Haven. S\o.— From Profs. SiU 



liman <^ Dana^ Fditors. 

 Report of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, for the year 



1855. By Thomas S. Kirkbride, M.D. Physician to the Institu- 



tion. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Author. 

 The Scholar's Panoply, as illustrated by the Shield of Achilles; — the 



Biennial Oration delivered before the Zelosophic Society of the 



