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From the Royal Academy of Belgium, dated Brussels, 20th 

 August, 1848, announcing a donation to the Society. 

 The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 

 Vol. IX. No. 18, and Vol. X. Part 3. London, 1847-8. 8vo.— 

 From the Royal Asiatic Society. 



Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. 

 Second Series. Vol. VIII. London, 1848. 8vo. — From the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. 



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

 and Geology. Second Series. Vol.11. No. 10. London, 1848. 

 8vo. — From Sir William Jardine, Bart. 



Q. D. B. V. Auctoritate et sub auspiciis Augustissimi ac Potentis- 

 simi Principis et Domini Friderici Gulielmi I. Electoris et Land- 

 gravii Hassise, Magni Ducis Fuldse, &c. ad Novi Prorectoris In- 

 augurationem, die 10 Septerabris, 1848, concelebrandam, invitat 

 Prorector Magistratu abiturus, Christianus Ludovicus Gerling, 

 Phil. Doct. Math. Phys. atque astron. P. P. O. Inest commen- 

 tatio inscripla. Nachricht von dem Mathematisch Physicalischen 

 Institut der Universitat Marburg. Marburg, 1848. 4to. — From 

 the Author. 



The Medical News and Library. Vol. VI, No. 71. November, 

 1848. 8vo. — From Lea <^ Blanchard. 



The minutes of the Board of Officers w^ere read. 

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



Stated Meeting, December 1. 



Present, seventeen members. 



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



Letters were received and read: — 



From the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, dated Ber- 

 lin, iSth August, 1848, accompanying a donation to the So- 

 ciety : — 



From Prof. Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Instiution, 



