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The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XVL 

 No. 1. Nov. 1856. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. VL 

 No. 3. Boston. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XXXII. No. 

 6. Dec. 1856. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 



Report of the Commissioner of Patents for 1855. Arts and Manu- 

 factures. Vol. 2. Washington. 8vo. — From the Commissioner. 



Astronomical Observations made during the year 1848, at the U. S. 

 Naval Observatory, Washington, under the direction of M. F. 

 Maury, L.L.D. Lieut. U. S. Navy, Superintendent. Wash- 

 ington, 1856. 4to. — F7'om the Author. 



A Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology or Materia Medica. 

 By George B. Wood, M.D. late President of the Am. Med. Assoc. 

 &C.&C. 2 Vols. Philadelphia, 1856. Q\o— From the Author. 



Report on Strychnia: its Physiological Properties and Chemical De- 

 tection. By Lewis H. Steiner, M.D., of Baltimore, Md. Phila- 

 delphia. 8vo. — From the Author. 



Twenty-eighth Report of the Natural History Society of Montreal, 

 delivered by the late Council, and read at the Annual Meeting of 

 the Society, May 19, 1856. Montreal. 8vo. 



Rapport du Surintendant de I'Education pour le Bas-Canada, pour 

 I'annee 1855. Toronto. 8vo. 



Rapport de I'Ecole Normale, des Ecoles de Grammaire, et les Ecoles 

 Communes du Haut-Canada, pour I'annee 1854; avec une Ap- 

 pendice par le Surintendant en chef des Ecoles. Quebec. Svo. 



Rapport des Commissaires des Travaux Publics, pour I'annee expiree 

 le 31 Dec. 1856. Toronto. 8vo.— From M. L, A. Huguet 

 Laiour. 



Astronomical Journal, No. 99. (Vol. V. No. 3.) Dec. 24, 1856. 

 Albany. 4to. — From Dr. B. A. Goulds Jr. Editor. 



Proceedings of the Elliott Society of Natural History of Charleston, 

 S. C. Jan. July, 1856. Charleston. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. New 

 Series. Vol. III. Part 3. Philada. Nov. 1856. Mo.— From 

 the Academy. 



Pending nominations for membership were read. 



