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Stated Meeting, January \^, 



Present, nineteen members. 

 Judge Kane, President, in the Chair. 



Judge Kane, the newly elected President, on taking the 

 chair, expressed his acknowledgment of the honour conferred 

 upon him, and addressed the Society on its condition, duties, 

 and future prospects of scientific usefulness. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Annales des Mines. V. Serie. Tome IX. 2 livraison de 1856. 

 Paris. 8vo. — From the Engineers of VEcole des Mines. 



Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society in Boston, April 

 30, 1856,— and in Worcester Oct. 21, 1856. Boston. 8vo.— 

 From the Society. 



Report of the Commissioner of Patents, for the year 1855. Agri- 

 culture. Washington, 1856. 8vo. — From the Hon. J. R. 

 Tyson. 



The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. No. LXV. New 

 Series. January, 1857. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Dr. Isaac 

 Hays, Editor. 



The Medical News and Library. Vol. XV. No, 169. Jan. 1857. 

 Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Blanchard 6^ Lea, 



Report on the present state of our knowledge of Linguistic Ethnology, 

 made to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Aug. 1856. By Prof. S. S. Haldeman. Cambridge. 8vo.— 

 From the Author. 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 showing the Operations, Expenditures and Condition of the In- 

 stitution to January 1, 1856: and the Proceedings of the Board 

 up to March 22, 1856. Washington. 8vo. — From the Institu- 

 tion. 



The Committee on Dr. Leidy's paper, entitled " Remarks 

 on the Structure of the Foot of Megalonyx,^' made report in 

 favour of its publication in the Transactions of the Society, 

 which was ordered, and the committee discharged. 



