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He was unable to detect any distinct colouring matter, and be- 

 lieves it to have been coloured by the dust of a superior kind 

 of tea. The colour on the outside was a fine green, and ex- 

 hibits a high lustre, but when this is scraped oflf, the colour in 

 the inside is much darker. The colouring is done in China. 



On motion of Prof. Frazer, Dr. Patterson, INIr. M'Culloh, 

 and Prof. Kendall, were appointed a Committee, with power 

 to confer with a Committee of the Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences of Boston, and with Lieut. Gilliss, on the subjects re- 

 ferred to in the letter of the Secretary of the Navy, read this 

 evening, and they were authorized to take such action upon 

 the subject as they may deem expedient. 



Stated Meeting, October 6. 



Present, fifteen members. 



Dr. Fra>-e:lin Bache, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A letter was received and read: — 



From John M. Scott, Esq., dated Philadelphia, 15th Sep- 

 tember, 1848, resigning his membership in the Society, which 

 resignation was accepted. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBEAET. 



Report of the Seventeenth Meeting of the British Association for the 



Advancement of Science, held at Oxford, in June, 1847. — From 



the British Association. 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including. Zoology, Botany 



and Geology. Vol.11. Second Series. No. 8. August, 1848. — 



From Sir William Jardine. 

 Travaux de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de I'lle Maurice: du 6 



Octobre, 1842, au 24 Aout, 1846. — From the Natural History 



Society of Mauritius. 

 Monograph of the Fossil Squalidae of the United States. By Robert 



W. Gibbes, M.D., of Columbia, South Carolina. — From the 



Author. 

 Statistics of Coal. The Geographical and Geological Distribution of 



