PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAIS^ PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. V. APRIL— DECExMBER, 1850. No. 45. 



Stated Meeting, Jipril 5. 



Present, seven members. 



Dr. Franklin Bache, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A letter was read: — 



From A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the U. S. Coast Sur- 

 vey, dated Coast Survey Office, Washington, February, 1S50, 

 announcing the transmission of a donation to the Society, by 

 direction of the Treasury Department. 



The following donations were announced : — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Annales des Mines. Quatrieme Serie. Tome XV. Livr. 1, 2, 3, 

 1849; at Tome XVI. Livr. 4, 1849. Paris, 1849. 8vo.— 

 From the Chief Engineer ofVEcole des Mines.' 



Journal Asiatique. Quatrieme Serie. Tome XIV. No. 69. Nov., 

 Dec. 1849. Paris. 8vo. — From the Asiatic Society of Paris. 



Memoires de la Societe des Sciences, de I'Agriculture et des Arts, de 

 Lille. Parties 1 & 2. 1847,1848. Lille. 8vo.— From the 

 Society. 



Catalogue of the New York State Library, January 1, 1850. Al- 

 bany. 8vo. — From the Trustees of the N. Y. State Library. 



The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. Fidited by Isaac 

 Hays, M.D. No. XXVIII. New Series. April, 1850. Phila- 

 delphia. 8vo. — From the Editor. 



The Medical News and Library. Vol. VIII. No. 88. April, 1850. 

 Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Lea Sf Blanchard. 



First Report of the Committee on Public Hygiene of the American 

 Medical Association. Read at the Annual Meeting, held in Bos- 



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