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Journal Asiatique. Quatrieme Serie. Tome XIII. Nos. 61 to 64, 



inclusive. January to May, 1849. Paris. 8vo. — From the 



Asiatic Society of Paris. 

 Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie. Troisieme Serie. Tome X. 



Paris, 1849. 8vo. — Frovi the Geographical Society of Paris. 

 Compte Rendu de la Sociele Geologique de France. Reunion extra- 

 ordinaire a Epinal. Sept. 1847. 8vo. — From the Geological 



Society of Paris. 

 Memoire sur la Protogine des Alpes. Par M. A. Delesse. 1849. 



8vo. — From the Author. 

 Sur Ic Pouvoir JMagnetique des Mineraux et des Roches. Par M. A. 



Delesse, Ingenieur des Mines. 8vo. — From the same. 

 Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou. Nos. 



3 & 4, 1848. No. 1. 1849. 8vo.— From the Imperial Society 



of Naturalists of Moscow. 

 Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. XIX. 



Part 1. London, 1849. — From the Society. 

 Report of the Eighteenth Meeting of the British Association for the 



Advancement of Science, held at Swansea, in August, 1848. 



London. 8vo. — From the Association. 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, 



and Geology. Second Series. Vol. IV. No. 20. Aug. 1849. 



London. 8vo. — From Sir William Jardine, Baronet. 

 The American Journal of Science and Arts. Second Series. Vol. 



VIII. No. 23. Sept. 1849. New Haven. 8vo.— From the 



Editors. 



The Committee to whom had been referred at the last meet- 

 ing, Mr. Kahler's communication on the origin of the Plane- 

 tary motions, reported that they deemed it in its present state 

 unsuited for publication in the Transactions of the Society, and 

 recommended that it be held subject to the disposal of the 

 author. 



The recommendation was adopted, and the Committee dis- 

 charged. 



Professor Frazer exhibited two diamonds from the gold re- 

 gion of Georgia. They are well crystallized, not of very fine 

 water, and weigh about one and a half carats each. The gen- 

 tleman from whom they came states, that he believes that 

 others may be obtained from the same locality. 



Dr. MacEuen exhibited a specimen, said to be pure zinc, ob- 



