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Stated Meeting, Jlpril 18. 



Present, twenty-one members. 



Prof. Frazer, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From John P. Brown, dated American Legation, Constanti- 

 nople, Turkey, March fj, 1S56, acknowledging the receipt of 

 notice of his election as a member of the Society: — 



From H. Bossange & Son, dated 25 Quai Voltaire, Paris, 

 January, 1S56, accompanying a donation for the library: and — 



From Dr. Charles W. Short, dated near Louisville, Ken- 

 tucky, April 5, 1856, giving reasons for not fulfilling his ap- 

 pointment by the Society to prepare an obituary notice of the 

 late Mr. William Short, and requesting to be released from the 

 duty assigned. 



The following donations were announced : — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Annates des Mines. V. Serie. Tome VII. 1 livraison de 1855. Paris. 

 8vo. — From the Engineers ofVEcole des Mines. 



Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York, 

 procured in Holland, England and France, by John Romeyn 

 Brodhead, Agent, &c. Edited by E. B. O'Callaghan, M.D. Vol. 

 VI. Albany, 1855. 4to. — From the Regents of the University 

 of the State of Neiv York. 



Results of a Series of Meteorological Observations, made in obedience 

 to instructions from the Regents of the University, at sundry Aca- 

 demies in the State of New York, from 1826 to 1850, inclusive. 

 Compiled from the original returns, and the Annual Reports of 

 the Regents of the University, by Franklin B. Hough, A.M. M.D. 

 &c. &c. Albany, 1855. 4to. — -From the same. 



Sixty-ninth Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the 

 State of New York : transmitted to the Legislature Jan. 15, 1856. 

 Albany. 8vo. — From the same. 



Annual Report of the Trustees of the New York State Library: trans- 

 mitted to the Legislature January 22, 1856. Albany. 8vo. — 

 From the same. 



