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actions and Proceedings of this Society as can be furnished, 

 was directed to be sent to the Smithsonian Institution, at 

 Washington. 



Stated Meeting, March 15. 

 Present, twelve members. 

 Dr. Patterson, President, in the Chair. 

 The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Boston Journal of Natural History ; containing Papers and Com- 

 munications read before the Boston Society of Natural History. 

 Vol. VI. No. 1. Boston, 1850. 8vo.— From the Boston So- 

 ciety of Natural History. 



The African Repository and Colonial Journal. Vol. XXVI. No. 3. 

 March, 1850. Washington. 8vo.' — From the American Colo- 

 nization Society, 



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

 IX. No. 26. March, 1850. New Haven. 8vo.— From Profs. 

 Silliman and Dana, Editors. 



The Medical News and Library. Vol. VIII. No. 87. March, 1850. 

 Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Lea <^ Blanchard. 



Report of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, for the year 1849. 

 By Thomas S. Kirkbride, M.D. Physician to the Institution. 

 Published by order of the Board of Managers. Philadelphia, 

 1850. 8vo.— From the Author. 



Remarks on the Condition of the Marine Hospital Fund of the United 

 States ; with suggestions for its improvement. By a Surgeon U. 

 S. Navy. Philadelphia, 1841. 8yo.— From Dr. W. S. W. 

 Ruschenberger. 



An Examination into the Legality of the General Orders which con- 

 fer assimilated Rank on Officers of the Civil Branch of the U. S. 

 Navy. By a Surgeon. Philadelphia, 1848. 8vo. — From the 

 same. 



Fac-Simile of a Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Humphry Marshall, 

 a Pennsylvania Farmer, April 22, 1771. Philadelphia, 1850. — 

 From Thomas Fisher. 



The Destiny of Pittsburgh, and the Duty of her Young Men: an 



