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Resolved, That Thomas Dunlap, Esq. be requested to prepare an 

 obituary notice of Judge Kane, to be read before the Society and per- 

 petuated among its records. 



Resolved, That a letter be addressed to the family of Judge Kane, 

 expressive of the deep sympathy of the Society in the bereavement 

 which they have sustained, and that it be accompanied by a copy of 

 these resolutions. 



Stated Meeting, March 5. 



Present, sixty-eight members. 



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



Letters were read: — 



From Madame A. A. Temminck, dated Leyden, Jan. 30, 

 1S5S, giving information of the death of her husband, C. J. 

 Temminck, a member of this Society, aged about 80 years: 

 and — 



From Prof. Zantedeschi, dated Padua, Jan. 31, 1858,accom- 

 panying a communication "On the measure of the limits of the 

 electrical nervous-muscular sensibility of man, considered in 

 comparison with his mechanical force." 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. Vol. IV. Part 



4. 1857. 4to. 

 Proceedings of the same, Part XXllI. p. 65-435. Part XXIV. p. 



192. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XVIII. 



No. 3. Jan. 1858. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society. No. XL. (Vol. X. 4.) 



Jan. 1858. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences. New Scries. Vol. 



111. Part 4. Philadelphia. 4to. — From the Academy. 

 The Medical News and Library. Vol. XVI. No. 183. March, 



1858. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Blanchard <S^ Lea. 

 The American Journal of Science and Art. Second Series. Vol. 



