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Personal Liberty Laws (Statutes of Mass.), and Slavery in the 

 Territories (Case of Dred Scott). 8vo paniph. Boston. 18GL 

 Royal Institution of Great Britain. 



Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the INIenibers. Vol. 

 in. Part 10. Nov. 1859 -July, 1860. 8vo. London. 18G0. 



List of the Members, Officers, &c. for the Year 1859. 8vo. 

 London. 1860. 

 Radcliffe Trustees. 



Radcliffe Catalogue of 6317 Stars, chiefly Circumpolar, reduced 

 to the Epoch 1845.0 ; formed from the Observations made at the 

 Radcliffe Observatory, under the Superintendence of Manuel John 

 Johnson, M. D., late Radcliffe Observer; — with Introduction by 

 Rev. Robert Main, M. A., Radcliffe Observer. 1 vol. Roy. 8vo. 

 Oxford. 1860. 



Pour hundred aud ninety-seventli meeting. 



August 14, 1801. — Statute Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters relative to the ex- 

 changes of the Academy ; also letters from the Rev. Professor 

 Peabody and Mr. Ferrel, in acknowledgment of the official 

 notification that they had been chosen Fellows of the Acad- 

 emy, and from the family of the late Chief Justice Shaw, and 

 from tliat of the late Judge Wliite, in acknowledgment of the 

 reception of copies of the resolves of the Academy adopted 

 upon the occasion of the announcement of their decease. 



A quorum for the transaction of business not being present, 

 scientific communications only were received. 



Dr. Beck gave an account of the principal manuscript copies 

 of the Sati/ricon of Petronius Arbiter preserved in various 

 European libraries, and which he had examined ; and he pre- 

 sented to the Academy a collation of the various readings 

 of these manuscripts, with a view to tlie construction of an 

 amended text of this author. 



The Corresponding Secretary communicated, from the au- 

 thor, the following paper : — 



