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Oversigt over det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs For- 

 handlinger, og dets Medlemmers Arbeider i Aaret 1846. Copen- 

 hagen, 1847. 8vo. — From the same. 



QucEstiones a Societate Regia Danica Scientiarum, anno 1847, cum 

 preemii promisso propositce. — From the same. 



An Investigation of the Theories of the Natural History of Man, by 

 Lawrence, Prichard, and others, founded upon Animal Analogies : 

 and an Outline of a New Natural History of Man, founded upon 

 History, Anatomy, Physiology and Human Analogies. By Wm. 

 F. Van Amringe. New York, 1848. 8vo. — From the Author, 

 through Dr. S. G. Morton. 



Pending nominations, Nos. 224 and 225, v^^ere read. 



On motion of Mr. G. W. Smith, the use of the Hall of the 

 Society was tendered to the Convention on the subject of Penal 

 Reform, for the purpose of holding their meetings in. 



Stated Meeting, July 21. 



Present, eleven members. 



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



Letters were received and read: — 



From the Royal Institute of Sciences, Belles Lettres and 

 Arts of the Low Countries, dated Amsterdam, 15th March, 

 1848, accompanying a donation to this Society: — 



From the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, dated Edinbargh, 

 14th December, 1847, acknowledging the receipt of Vol. IV. 

 No. 39, and Vol. V. No. 40, of the Proceedings of this So- 

 ciety : — 



From Prof. A. D. Bache, dated Washington, 12th June, 

 1848, on transmitting sheets of the Coast Survey Maps: and — 



From Judge Jones, dated Girard College, July, 1848, ac- 

 knowledging the receipt of notice of his election as a me.mber 

 of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOE THE LIBRARY. 



Niewe Verhandelingen der Eerste Klasse van het Koninklijk Neder- 

 landsche Instituut van Wetenschappen, Letterkunde en Schoone 



