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The following donations were announced : — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Fifteenth Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 



1847. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Boletin de la Sociedad Economica de Amigos del Pais, de Valencia. 



Ai!o 9°. Tomo 5°. April, 1848. 8\o.-— From the Society. 

 Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 



I., from May, 1846, to May, 1848. Boston and Cambridge. 



8vo. — From the Academy. 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



For May and June, 1848. 8vo. — From the Academy. 

 Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the State of New 



York, made to the Legislature, March 2, 1848. 8vo. — From 



the Regents of the University of New York. 

 Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XVI. No. 1. 



July, 1848. 8vo. — From the Institute. 

 The Medical News and Library. Vol. VI. No. 68. August, 1848. 



8vo. — From Messrs. Lea <^ Blanchard. 

 The African Repository and Colonial Journal. Vol. XXIX. No. 8. 



August, 1848. 8vo. — From the American Colonization So- 

 ciety. 

 An Address delivered at the laying of the Corner Stone of the House 



of Refuge for Coloured Juvenile Delinquents, on Saturday, July 1, 



1848. By James J. Barclay, A.M. 8vo. — From the Author. 

 Messages of the President of the United States, with the Correspon- 

 dence therewith communicated, between the Secretary of War 

 and the Officers of the Government, on the subject of the Mexi- 

 can War. Washington, 1848. Svo. — From the Hon. J. R. 

 Ingersoll. 



Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, show- 

 ing the Operations, Expenditures and Condition of the Institution. 

 Washington, January 6, 1848. Svo. — From the Hon. G. M. 

 Dallas. 



Memorial of D. L. Dix, praying a Grant of Land for the Relief and 

 Support of the Indigent Curable and Incurable Insane in the Uni- 

 ted States. Washington, June 27, 1848. Svo. — From the same. 



The following communication was received from Professor 

 Alexander, relative to some observations made by himself and 

 Dr. Philip Ten Eyck, Professor in the Albany Academy, on 

 the small eclipse of the sun, which occurred in March last. 



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