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dated Nov. 1, and Dec. 30, 1855; — from the Imperial Geolo- 

 gical Institute, dated Vienna, Sept. 23, 1855; severally an- 

 nouncing donations for the library: — 



From the Director of the Physical Central Observatory of 

 Russia, dated St. Petersburg, 18-30 March, 1855; acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of Vol. X. Part 3 of the Transactions of 

 this Society; — from the Royal Academy of Sciences at Am- 

 sterdam, dated Jan. 15, 1856; — from the Horticultural Society 

 of Berlin, dated Feb. 8, 1856; — and from the Royal Society 

 of London, dated Somerset House, March 8, 1856, — returning 

 thanks for Nos. 51,52, of the Proceedings: — 



From the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, dated Mu- 

 nich, Jan. 12, 1856, accompanying a donation for the library, 

 and acknowledging the receipt of Nos. 45, 46, 51 and 52 of the 

 Proceedings; and from the same, dated Jan. 20, 1856, request- 

 ing to be furnished with duplicate copies of all the publications 

 of this Society: — 



From the Royal Society of Sciences at Gottingen, dated 

 March 23, 1856, transmitting one impression in silver and one 

 in bronze, of a medal struck by order of His Majesty the King 

 of Hanover, in memory of Dr. Charles Frederic Gauss, the 

 eminent mathematician and astronomer: and — 



From the Academy of Science of St. Louis, Missouri, dated 

 May 30, 1856, requesting a correspondence with this Society, 

 and offering to give extinct mammalian fossils in exchange for 

 the Transactions of the Society, or for other books or articles. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Abhandlungen der K. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt. Band II. Wien, 

 1855. Fol. 



Jahrbuch der K. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt. VI. Jahrgang. No. 1. 

 Jan. Feb. Mar. No 2. Apr. May, Jun. 1855. Wien, 8yo.— From 

 the Imp. Geological Institute, Vienna. 



Coup d'ooil gcologique sur les Mines de la Monarchie Autrichienne. 

 Rcdige, par ordre do I'lnstitut Imperial et Royal de Geologie, par 

 le Chevalier Fr. dc Ilauer ct Fr. Foetterle; — avec una introduc- 

 tion par Guillaume Haidinger. Vicnne, 1855. 8vo. — From the 

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