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The Chairman of the Publication Committee laid upon the 

 table Vol. X. Part 1, of the Transactions of the Society. 



On motion of the Librarian, the Ethnological Society of 

 Paris was put on the list of exchanges of this Society. 



Stated Meeting, January 21. 



Present, twenty-six members. 



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



A letter was received and read: — 



From M. U. J. Leverrier, dated Paris, 19th June, 1847, ac- 

 knowledging the receipt of notice of his election as a member 

 of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



American Journal of Science and Arts. Conducted by Professor B. 

 Silliman and B. Silliman, Jr., and James W. Dana. Second Se- 

 ries. No. 8. March, 1847. No. 13. January, 1848. 8vo.— 

 From the Editors. 



American Journal of the Medical Sciences. Edited by Isaac Hays, 

 M.D., Surgeon to Wills' Hospital, Physician to the Philadelphia 

 Orphan Asylum, &c. &c. No. XXIX. New Series. January, 

 1848. 8vo. — From the Editor. 



Substance of the Argument of John M. Clayton, of Delaware, for the 

 United States, in the matter of the Pea Patch Island, before the 

 Hon. John Sergeant; delivered in the Hall of American Inde- 

 pendence, in the City of Philadelphia, on the second and third of 

 December, 1847: containing a Discussion of the Title of the 

 States of Delaware and New Jersey to the River Delaware and 

 its Islands. Philadelphia, 1848. 8vo. — Frotn the Hon. John 

 M. Clayton. 



Lecture, introductory to a Course on Surgery, in the University of 

 Pennsylvania: containing a Short Account of Eminent British 

 Surgeons, Physicians, Scientific and Literary Men ; delivered Oc- 

 tober 22, 1847. By William Gibson, M.D., Professor of Sur- 

 gery. Philadelphia, 1847. 8vo.— JProm the Author. 



