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with a high sense of gratitude towards your distinguished Society^ 

 for the favour they conferred. 



With sentiments of the highest respect, 



I am, Sir, your friend and servant, 

 JOHN CASSIN, 



Cor. Sec. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philada." 



The followino; donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBEARY. 



The Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society, of London. No. 

 VII. Oct. 1, 1849. London. 8vo. — From the Chemical So- 

 ciety. 



Summary of the Transactions of the College of Physicians of Phi- 

 ladelphia. Vol. II. No. 8. From May 1 to Oct. 2, 1849. Phi- 

 ladelphia. 8vo. — From the College of Physicians. 



Letter to the Hon. John M. Clayton, Secretary of State, enclosing a 

 Paper, Geographical, PoHtical and Commercial, on the Indepen- 

 dent Oriental Nations ; and containing a Plan for opening, ex- 

 tending and protecting American Commerce in the East, &c. 

 By Aaron Haight Palmer, Counsellor of the Supreme Court of 

 the United States. Washington, 1849. 8vo. — From the Author. 



Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Warehousing Sys- 

 tem; made to the Senate of the United States, February 22, 

 1849. Washington. 8vo. — Fro7n Charles B. Trego, Esq. 



The Medical News and Library : Vol. VII. No. 84. December, 

 1849. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Lea Sf Blanchard. 



An Essay on Cause and Effect; being an examination of Hume's 

 doctrine that we can perceive no necessary connexion between 

 them. By George Tucker, late Professor of Moral Pbilosophy 

 in the University of Virginia, Member of the American Philoso- 

 phical Society, &c. Philada., 1850. 8vo. — From the Author. 



Mr. Coles announced the death of Mr. Wm. Short, a mem- 

 ber of this Society, which occurred on the 5th inst., in the 

 91st year of his age. 



The Treasurer presented his Annual Report, which was 

 read. New nomination No. 232 was read. 



Dr. Franklin Bache, Chairman of the Committee appointed 

 on the 2d November last, on the arrangement and preservation 

 of the "Franklin Manuscript Papers," made a report from 



