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and from Hugh B. Grigsby, dated Norfolk, Virginia, May 1, 

 1857, acknowledging the receipt of notice of their election as 

 members of the Society: — 



From the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, dated 

 12-24 June, 1S56: from the Royal Academy of Sciences at 

 Amsterdam, dated Aug. 27, 1856: from the Royal Society of 

 Sciences at Upsal, dated Nov. 10, 1856: from the Royal Saxon 

 Society of Sciences, dated Leipzig, December 31, 1856: from 

 the Natural History Society in Emden, dated Jan. 4, 1857: 

 from the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, dated Munich, 

 Feb. 4, 1857: and from the Natural History Society at Alten- 

 burg, dated Feb. 10, 1857, severally announcing the transmis- 

 sion of donations for the library: — 



From the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences, dated Leipzig, 

 Jan. 12, 1857: from the Ethnological Society of London, 

 dated Jan. 31, 1857: from the Royal Bavarian Academy of 

 Sciences, dated Feb. 4, 1857: and from the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, dated May 4, 1857, returning acknowledg- 

 ments for copies of the Proceedings of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Nouveaux Memoires de la Societe Imperiale des Naluraiistes de 



Moscou; Tome X. 1855. 4to. 

 Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou: Annee 



1855, Nos. 2, 3, 4. 1856, No. 1. Moscou. Svo.— From the 

 Society. 



Die Urkundiichen Quellen zur Geschichte der Universitat Leipzig, in 



den ersten 150 jahren ihrens bestehens; von F. Zarncke. W. 



Hofmeister: Beitrage zur Kentniss der Gefasscryptogamen, II. 



W. G. Hankel: Elektrische Untersuchungen. Leipzig, 1856-7. 



— From the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences. 

 Gelehrte Anzeigen: herausgegeben von mitghedern der K. Bayeris- 



chen Academie der Wissenschaften. Band 42, 43. Miinchen, 



1856. 4to. — From the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 

 Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereines der Preussischen 



Rheinlande und Westphalens. Jahrgang, XIII. 2, 3, Heft. 

 Bonn, 1856. Svo. — From the Nat. Hist. Union of Rhenish, 

 Prussia, and Westphalia. 

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