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Stated Meeting, Jipril 17. 



Present, nineteen members. 



Dr. DuNGLisoN, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Royal Danish Society of Sciences, dated Copen- 

 hagen, June 1, and Sept. 1, 1856, acknowledging the receipt 

 of Proceedings, and announcing a donation for the library: — 



From the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences, dated Leipsic, 

 Sept. 15; and from the Imperial Geological Institute, dated 

 Vienna, Sept. 29, 1S56, both accompanying donations for the 

 library: and, — 



From the Academy of Sciences, of St. Louis, dated April fJ, 

 1857, acknowledging the receipt of No. 56 of the Proceedings 

 of this Society, and announcing the transmission of Vol. I. No. 

 1, of the Transactions of the Academy. 



The following donations were announced : — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Ablwmdlungen der K. K. Geologischen Reicbsanstalt. Band III. 



Wien, 1856. Folio. 

 Jahrbuch der K. K. Geologischen Reicbsanstalt. VI. Jahrgang, Oct. 



Nov. Dec. 1855. VII. Jahrgang, .Tan. Feb. Mar. 1856. Wien. 



8vo. — From the Imp. Geological Institvte, Vienna. 

 Recueil des Memoires presentes a I'Academie des Sciences par les 



Astronomes de Poulkova, ou offerts a I'Observatoire Central par 



d'autres Astronomes du pays: public avec I'autorization de I'Aca- 



demie, par W. Struve, Directeur de I'Observatoire Central. Vol. 



I. St. Petersbourg, 1853. 4to. 

 Positions moyennes pour I'Epoque de 1790, 0, des Etoiles Circum- 



polaires, dont les observations ont ete publiees par Jerome La- 



lande dans les Memoires de I'Academie de Paris de 1789 et 1790. 



Par Ivan Fedorenko, Astronome surnumeraire a I'Observatoire de 



Poulkova. St. Petersbourg, 1854. 4to. 

 Almse Universitati Dorpatensi, diem XII. Decembris, Anni 



MDCCCLIIj quo quinquaginta annos inde ab origine feliciter per- 



fectos celebrat, pie gratulantur Speculse in Rossia primariae Di- 



