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Stated Meeting, September 21. 



Present, fourteen members. 



Dr. Patterson, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received and read: — 



From the Royal Institute of Science, Belles-Lettres and the 

 Arts of the Netherlands, dated Amsterdam, April, 1849; 

 and from the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, dated 

 Munich, 1st February, 1849, announcing the transmission of 

 donations to the Society: — 



From the Royal Institution of London, dated Albemarle 

 street, 2d May, 1849, acknowledging the receipt of Vol. V. 

 No. 41, of the Proceedings of this Society: — 



From F. Le Play of the Ecole des Mines, Paris, dated Paris, 

 30th July, 1849, in relation to the exchange of publications 

 with this Society: and — 



From Mr. Reuben Hanse, dated Philadelphia, 13th Septem- 

 ber, 1849, transmitting a communication on the origin of the 

 planetary motions, by Mr. Wm. Kahler. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Discursos Politicos sobre la Legislacion y la Historia del antiguo 

 Reino de Aragon. Por Don Javier de Quinto, de la Academia 

 de la Historia. Madrid, 1848. 8vo. — From the Author. 



Verhandelingen der Eerste Klasse van het Koninklyk Nederlandsche 

 Instituut van Wetenschappen, Letterkunde, en Schoone Kunsten, 

 te Amsterdam. Derde Reeks; Eersten Deels; Tweedes Stuk. 

 Amsterdam, 1848. 4to. — From the Royal Netherlands Insti- 

 tute of Science, Literature and the Fine Arts. 



Tydschrift voor de Wis-en Natuurkundige Wetenschappen, uitge- 

 geven door de Eerste Klasse van het Koninklyk Nederlandsche 

 Instituut van Wetenschappen, Letterkunde, en Schoone Kunsten. 

 Tvveede Deel: 3 and 4 aflevering. Amsterdam, 1849. 8vo. 

 From the same. 



Nachrichten von der Georg Augusts Universitat und der Koniglich 

 Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gdttingen : vom jahre 1848. 



