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Stated Meeting, February 2. 



Present, thirteen members. 



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



Letters were received and read: — 



From the Hon. George P. Marsh, dated House of Represen- 

 tatives, Washington, 22d January, 1849, acknowledging the 

 receipt of notice of his election as a member of this Society: 

 and, — 



From the Geological Society of London, dated Somerset 

 House, 2d November, 1848, acknowledging the receipt of Vol. 

 V. No. 40, of the Proceedings of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Annuaire Magnetique et Meteorologique du Corps des Ingenieurs des 

 Mines: ou Recueil des Observations Meteorologiques et Mag- 

 netiques, faites dans I'etendue de I'Empire de Russia. Par A. T. 

 Kupffer, Directeur des Observatoires Magnetiques des Mines, &c. 

 Annee 1845. Part 1 and 2. 2 Vols. 4to. St. Petersburg, 1848. 

 From the Author, Prof. Kupffer. 



Resumes des Observations Meteorologiques faites dans I'etendue de 

 I'Empire de Russie, et deposees aux Archives Meteorologiques de 

 I'Academie des Sciences : publics sous les auspices et aux frais 

 de I'Academie des Sciences. Par A. T. Kupffer, Membre de 

 I'Academie. ler Cahier. St. Petersburg, 1846. 4to. — From 

 the same. 



Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at the Royal Ob- 

 servatory, Greenwich, in the Year 1846; under the direction of 

 George Biddell Airy, Esq., M. A., Astronomer Royal. Published 

 by order of the Board of Admiralty, in obedience to Her Majes- 

 ty's Command. London, 1848. 4to. — From the Royal Society 

 of London. 



Astronomical Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Green- 

 wich, in the Year 1846; under the direction of George Biddell 

 Airy, Esq., M. A., Astronomer Royal. s Published by order of 

 the Board of Admiralty, in obedience to Her Majesty's Command. 

 London, 1848. 4to From the same. 



