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Oct. 27, 1S57: and from the Royal Bavarian Academy of 

 Sciences dated Munich, Dec. 12, 1857, acknowledging the re- 

 ceipt of Transactions and Proceedings of this Society, and also 

 announcing tb.e transmission of donations for the library: — 



From the Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy at 

 Rotterdam, dated .Jan. 14, 1S5S, returning acknowledgements 

 for Proceedings and Transactions of this Society: — 



From Dr. Robley Dunglison, dated June S, 185S, informing 

 the Society that, on account of the attacks of an oft-recurring 

 and disabling malady, it would not be in his power, after this 

 year, to undertake the duties that appertain to any official ap- 

 pointment by the Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



The Samoan New Testament. London, 1849. (458 pages.) 12mo. 



— From Dr. Ruschenherger. 

 The Samoan Book of Ezekiel. Apia, 1849. (126 pages.) 12mo. 



— Frotn the same. 

 The Samoan Catechism. London, 1856. (20 pages.) 12mo. — 



From the same. 

 Quarterly Summary of the Transactions of the College of Physicians 



of Philadelphia, from August 5, 1857 to Feb. 3, 1858, Vol. III. 



No. 4. Philadelphia, 1858. Svo.— From the College. 

 Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. VI. No. 



20, 22. Boston, 1858. Qvo.—From the Society. 

 The Astronomical Journal. Vol. V. No. 17. May 20. Albany, 



1858. A\o.—From Dr. B. A. Gould. 

 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. No. 6. April 



9. London, 1858. — From the Society. 

 Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Socict}^ April 28. Boston, 



1858. (32 pages.) 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society. No. XLI. April. Lon- 

 don, 1858. 8vo. — Fro7n the Society. 

 Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. No. VII. Feb. 



1857. London, 1858. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 The Historical IMagazino. Vol. [. No. 5. May. New York and 



Boston, 1858. 8vo.— From Col. J. D. Graham. 

 Jahrbuch dorKai. Kon. Gcologischen Reichsanslalt, 1856. VII. No. 



4. 1857. VIll. No. 1. Wien, 1858. 8vo.— From the Institvte. 



