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From the Royal Geographical Society of London, dated 

 Nov. 17, 1855, acknowledging the receipt of Nos. 51, 52 of 

 the Proceedings: — 



From the Corporation of Yale College, in New Haven, 

 dated Oct. 11, 1856, returning thanks for No. 55 of the Pro- 

 ceedings: — 



From the Department of State, dated Washington, — , 1856, 

 announcing a donation for the library: and — 



From Mr. Thomas Sully, dated Philadelphia, Oct. 24, 1856, 

 asking the loan of the Society's portrait of Thomas Jefferson, 

 for the purpose of making a copy. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the 

 year 1856. Vol. 146. Part 1. 4to. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Vol. VIII. Nos. 19, 20, 

 21, 22. 1856. 8vo.— From the Society. 



Astronomical and Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made 

 at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the year 1854; under 

 the superintendence of George Biddell Airy, Esq., M.A., Astrono- 

 mer Royal. London. 1856. 4to. — From the same. 



Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society; containing the Ad- 

 dress of Rear Admiral F. W. Beechey, V.P.R.S., &c. President, 

 at the Anniversary Meeting, May 26, 1856. London. 8vo. — 

 From the Society. 



Report of the Twenty-fifth Meeting of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, held at Glasgow in September, 1855. 

 London. 8vo. — Fro?n the Association. 



Compte Rendu Annuel Adresse a S. E. M. de Brock, Ministre des 

 Finances, par le Directeur de TObservatoire Central, A. T. Kup- 

 ffer, Annee 1854. St. Petersburg, 1855. 4to. — From the Ob- 

 servatory. 



Observations Meteorologiques faites a Nijne Taguilsk (Monts Oural), 

 Gouvernement de Perm. Annee 1854. Paris. 8vo. — From the 

 same. 



Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. Vol. XXIII. Part 1. Sci- 

 ence. Dublin, 1856. 4to. 



Proceedings of the same; 1855-6. Vol. VI. Part 3. Dublin. 8vo. — 

 From the Academy. 



