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Stated Meeting, May 4. 



Present, eleven members. 



Dr. Patterson, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received and read: — 



From the American Antiquarian Society, dated Worcester, 

 Mass., 28th April, 1849; and from the Trustees of the New- 

 York State Library, dated Albany, 28lh April, 1849, respec- 

 tively acknowledging the receipt of the Proceedings of this 

 Society, Vol. V. No. 42: and — 



From Mr. Petty Vaughan, (addressed to the Librarian,) 

 dated London, 5th April, 1849, requesting, on behalf of the 

 Royal Institution, that certain numbers of the Transactions, 

 and also of the Proceedings of this Society, in which their Li- 

 brary is deficient, should be forwarded to them. 



On motion of Dr. Dunglison, the matter was referred to the 

 Librarian, with power to take order. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. IX. No. 4. 

 February 9, 1849. London. 8vo. — From the Royal Astrono- 

 mical Society. 



A Paper upon California : read before the Maryland Historical So- 

 ciety. By J. Morrison Harris, Corresponding Secretary. March, 

 1849. Baltimore, 1849. 8vo. — From the Maryland Historical 

 Society. 



The African Repository and Colonial Journal. Vol. XXV. No. 4. 

 April, 1849. Washington. 8vo. — From the American Colo- 

 nization Society. 



The Medical News and Library. Vol. VII. No. 77. May, 1849. 

 Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Lea and Blanchard. 



The Committee appointed at the last meeting, upon the 

 paper of Lieut. Gilliss, made report, recommending its pub- 

 lication in the Transactions of this Society; which was ordered 

 accordingly, and the Committee discharged. 



Prof. Kendall referred to an examination which he and 



