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ford, in the year 1846. By Manuel J. Johnson, M.A., Radcliffe 

 Observer. Vol. VII. Oxford, 1848. Qwo.—From the Radcliffe 

 Trustees. 



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

 York, on the Condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History ; 

 with a Catalogue of the same. Albany, 1848. 8vo. — From the 

 Regents of the University of the State of New York. 



Outline of the Constitutional History of New York: An Anniversary 

 Discourse, delivered at the request of the New York Historical 

 Society, in the City of New York, November 19, 1847. By 

 Benjamin Franklin Butler. New York, 1848. Bvo. — From the 

 Author. 



Memoir, Geographical, Political, and Commercial, on the present 

 State, Productions, Resources, and Capabilities for Commerce, of 

 Siberia, Manchuria, and the Asiatic Islands of the Northern Pa- 

 cific Ocean ; and on the importance of opening commercial in- 

 tercourse with those Countries. Addressed to His Excellency, 

 James K. Polk, President of the United States. By Aaron H. 

 Palmer. Printed by order of the Senate. Washington, 1848. 

 Bvo. — From A. H. Palmer, Esq. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XVI. No. 4. 

 October, 1848. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 



The American Journal of Science and Arts. Second Series. No. 18. 

 November, 1848. New Haven. 8vo. — From the Editors. 



The African Repository and Colonial Journal. Vol. XXIV. No. 11. 

 November, 1848. Washington. 8vo. — From the American 

 Colonization Society, 



Pending nominations, Nos. 224 and 225, were read. 



Stated Meeting, November 17. 



Present, fourteen members. 



Dr. Patterson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received and read : — 



From the Royal Asiatic Society, dated London, 17th June, 

 1848, acknowledging the receipt of Vol. X. Part 1 of the 

 Transactions, and Vol. IV. of the Proceedings of the Society: 

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