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Stated 3Ieeting, November 15, 1867. 



Present, fifteen members. 



Prof. Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read from the Central Physical Observatory 

 of Russia, St. Petersburg, October 10, 1866, and from the 

 Society of Physics and Natural History of Geneva, July 15, 

 1867, accompanying donations for the Library; from the 

 Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna, and from Prof. 

 Hyrtl, October 28 and 30, and November 15, 1865; and 

 from M. Rokitansky, dated Vienna, November 2, 1865; 

 also, from the Linnaean Society of London, June 20, 1867, 

 severally acknoAvledging the receipt of publications of the 

 Society. 



A letter was read, also, from the Secretary of the Royal 

 Institution of London, dated September 29, 1867, announcing 

 the death of Prof. Faraday, on the 25th of August, 1867, 

 in the 79th year of his age ; and a communication from J. H. 

 Sharman, dated Montreux Vaud, Switzerland, October 25, 

 1867, informing the Society of the death of M. A. Morlot, 

 one of its members. 



Donations for the Library were announced: From the 

 Central Physical Observatory of Russia; from the Nicolai, 

 chief Observatory of St. Petersburg; from the Royal Ob- 

 servatory of Hobart Town ; from the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences, and the Imperial Geographical Society of St. 

 Petersburg; from the Royal Society of Tasmania, and the 

 Royal Society of Victoria; from the Physical and Natural 

 History Society of Geneva ; from the Geographical Society 

 of Paris; from the Linnnean, the Chemical, and the Royal 

 Geographical Societies of London ; from the Royal Geological 

 Society of Ireland; from Prof. S. Newcomb, of the Observ- 

 atory at Washington, D. C. ; from Yale College, New Haven ; 

 from the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec ; from 

 D. Humphreys Storer, M.D.; from Geo. B. Wood, M.D,, 

 Philadelphia, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 



