PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. VI. JULY— DECEMBER, 1856. No. 56. 



Stated Meeting, July 18. 



Present, eight members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Baron J. Von Hammer Purgstall, dated Vienna, 

 Dec. 1855, and from Richard Cull, Esq., Secretary of the 

 Ethnological Society of London, dated 13 Tavistock Street, 

 Bedford Square, April 23, 1856, announcing donations for the 

 library of the Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie. IV. Serie. Tome X. Paris, 



1855. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Annales des Mines. V. Serie. Tome VII. 2 livr. de 1855. Paris. 



8vo. — From the Engineers ofVEcole des Mines. 

 Gelehrte Anzeigen, herausgegeben von mitgliedern der K. Bayeris- 



chen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Band 40, 41. Munchen. 



4to. 

 Friedr. Wilh. Jos. von Schelling. Denkrede von Dr. Hubert Peters. 



Marz 28, 1855. 

 Rede in K. Akad der Wissenschaften zu ihrer 96 Stiftungsfeier : ge- 



halten von Fr. von Thiersch. 

 Ueber die Gliederung der Bevolkerung des Konigreichs Bayern. 



Festrede von Dr. Fr. B. W. von Hermann, Nov. 28, 1855. Miin- 



chen. 4to. 

 Annalen der Konigl. Sternwarte bei Munchen : von Dr. J. Lament, 



Conservator der Sternwarte, &c. &c. VIII. Band. Munchen. 



8vo. — From the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 

 VOL. VI. — 2 F 



