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Stated Meeting, June 16. 



Present, sixteen members. 



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



Letters were received and read: — 



From Dr. Geddings, dated Charleston, S. C, 25th May, 1848, 

 acknowledging the receipt of notice of his election as a mem- 

 ber of this Society: — 



From the Royal Society of Sciences of Copenhagen, dated 

 Copenhagen, 20th April, 1847, acknowledging the receipt of 

 Vol. IX. Part 2d, of the Transactions ; of Vol. II. and III. of 

 the Proceedings; of the Transactions of the Historical and 

 Literary Committee, 1843; and of Dr. Dunglison's Public 

 Discourse on Mr. Du Ponceau; and announcing a donation to 

 the Society: — 



From the Regents of the University of the State of New 

 York, acknowledging the receipt of Vol. V. No. 40, of the 

 Proceedings of the Society : and — 



From P. A. Browne, Esq., dated Philadelphia, 10th June, 

 1848, announcing the formation of a Society for the Develop- 

 ment of the Mineral Resources of the United States, and asking 

 that they may be put upon the list of the correspondents of 

 this Society. 



On motion of Judge Kane, the society just named was placed 

 on the list of correspondents of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



A Catalogue of those Stars in the Histoire Celeste Francalse of Jerome 

 de Lalande, for which tables of reduction to the epoch 1800 

 have been published by Prof. Schumacher. Reduced at the ex- 

 pense of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 under the immediate superintendence of the late Francis Baily, 

 Esq. Printed at the expense of Her Majesty's Government. 

 London, 1847. 8vo. — From the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



A Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere, for the be- 



