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Stated Meeting, June 21, 1861. 



Present, eleven members. 



Dr. Franklin Bache in the Chair. 



Letters were read from Dr. Adam Sedgewick, dated Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, May 1, and from Dr. John Curwen, 

 dated Harrisburg, May 23, accepting membership. 



A letter was read from Dr. George B. Wood, dated Naples, 

 May 8, accepting his re-election as President ; and another, 

 dated Rome, May 31, respecting the Academia dei Lincei, the 

 name of which was, on motion, ordered to be placed on the 

 list of corresponding Societies, to receive both the Transac- 

 tions and Proceedings. 



A letter was read from the Royal Geographical Society, 

 dated London, March 22, acknowledging publications re- 

 ceived. 



A letter was read from the Smithsonian Institution, dated 

 Washington, April 22, informing of publications transmitted. 



A letter was read from Dr. Dunglison respecting an obitu- 

 ary notice of Professor Tucker. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Bureau 

 des Ponts et Chaussees, the Royal, Royal ^Astronomical, 

 Royal Geographical, and Society of Arts, in London, the 

 Royal Dublin Society, the American Association, the Ameri- 

 can Antiquarian Society, the Free Public Library of New Bed- 

 ford, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Franklin Institute, 

 Entomological Society, Pennsylvania Hospital, and Publishers 

 of the Medical News, in Philadelphia, the Superintendent of 

 the State Lunatic Asylum at Harrisburg, the American Co- 

 lonization Society, and Bureau of Topographical Engineers, at 

 Washington, from Professor T. Sterry Hunt, of Montreal, and 

 Professor H. D. Rogers, of Glasgow, Scotland. 



Mr. Dubois oifered for examination two remarkable speci- 

 mens of current money. 



