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The proceedings of the Officers and Council, at their last 

 meeting, were read by Prof. Frazer, clerk, pro tern. 



Pending nominations, Nos. 226, 227 and 228; and new 

 nominations, Nos. 229, 230 and 231, were read. 



Stated Meeting, June 15. 



Present, thirteen members. 



Dr. Patterson, President, in the Chair, 



Letters were received and read: — 



From the Corporation of the University of Cambridge, 

 Mass., dated Cambridge, 28th April, 1849, acknowledging the 

 receipt of Vol. V. No. 42, of the Proceedings of this So- 

 ciety: — 



From the New Jersey Historical Society, dated Newark, 

 16th May, 1849, acknowledging the receipt of the Proceed- 

 ings of this Society, from No. 38 to 42, inclusive: and — 



From Edw. D. Ingraham, Esq., dated Philadelphia, 15th 

 June, 1849, announcing a donation to the Society. 



The following donations w^ere announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



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



5, March 9; and No. 6, April 13, 1849. London. 8vo. — From 



the Royal Astronomical Society. 

 The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, 



Botany and Geology. Vol. III. No. 16. April 1849. London. 



8vo. — From Sir William Jardine, Bart. F.L.S. 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; 



from March 6 to April 24, 1849. — From the Academy of Na- 

 tural Sciences, Philadelphia. 

 On the Intimate Structure and History of the Articular Cartilages ; 



and Observations on the Existence of the Intermaxillary Bone in 



the Embryo of the Human Subject. By Joseph Leidy, M.D. 



8vo. — From the Author. 

 History and Transformations of Corydalus Cornutus. By S. S. 



Halderaan, A.M. ; and Internal Anatomy of Corydalus Cornutus, 



