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1857, on presenting certain manuscripts relating to the early 

 history of the Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Vol. XXII. Part 



1. 1856. 4to. 

 Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London: Botany, 



Vol. I. Nos. 1, 2, 3. Zoology, Vol. I. Nos. 1, 2, 3. With 



list of the Society for 1856. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Ein und vierzigster Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in 



Emden, fiir 1855. Emden. 8vo. — Fro7n the Aat. Hist. So- 

 ciety, Enide/i. 

 Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society. Vol. IX. No. 4. 



London, Jan. 1857. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Bulletin de la Societe de Geographic. IV. Serie. Tome XII. Paris, 



1857. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Flora Batava, of Afbeelding en Beschrijving van Nederlandsche 



Gevvassen. Aflevering 180. Amsterdam. 4to. — From the King 



of Holland. 

 Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural HistorV' Vol. VI. No. 



6. Feb. 1857. Svo.— From the Society. 

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



3. March, 1857. Piiiiadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 

 Twenty-first Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Young 



Men's Association of the City of BufIf\lo: with a Record of the 



Proceedings of the Association. Buffalo, 1857. 8vo. — From the 



Association. 

 African Repository. Vol. XXXIII. No. 3. March, 1857. Wash- 



ington. Svo. — From the American Colonization Society. 

 Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Finances of the United 



States, for the year ending June 30, 1856. Washington. Svo. — 



From the Hon. J. R. Tyson. 

 Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools of Pennsylvania^ 



for the year ending June 2, 1856. Harrisburg. Svo. — From the 



Hon. A. G. Curtin. 

 Recherches experimentales sur la Physiologie et la Pathologic des 

 Capsules surrenales : par le Dr. E. Brown-Sequard, Laureat de 

 I'Academie des Sciences, &c. Paris, 1856. Svo. — From the 

 Author. 

 The Navy of the United States, from the commencement, 1775 to 



