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Pending nominations were read. 



Tlie Reporter laid upon the table No. 44, Vol. V. of the 

 Proceedings of the Society, from October, 1849, to March, 

 1850. 



Mr. Trego read to the Society a paper from the Franklin 

 Manuscripts, under date of 26th March, 1778, enclosing a 

 piece of grajnsh metal proposed for coinage, as being impossi- 

 ble to be counterfeited. 



Prof. Frazer was requested to have the specimen analyzed. 



Stated Meeting, Jipril 19. 



Present, fifteen members. 



Dr. Patterson, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read : — 



From the New Jersey Historical Society, dated Newark, 

 8th April, 1850; and from the Trustees of the New York 

 State Library, dated Albany, 8th April, 1850, acknowledging 

 the receipt of No. 44 of the Proceedings of this Society: 

 and — 



Also, from Wm. B. Reed, Esq., accompanying a donation to 

 this Society, from the Lords of the British Treasury, through 

 the Hon. Geo. Bancroft. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Astronomical Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Green- 

 wich, in the year 1847, under the direction of George Biddell 

 Airy, Esq., M.A., Astronomer Royal. Published by order of the 

 Board of Admiralty. London, 1849. 4to. — From the Royal 

 Society of London. 



Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis ; being the Fossil Zoology of the Sewalik 

 Rills, in the North of India. By Hugh Falconer, M.D., F.R.S. 

 &c. and Proby T. Cautley, F.G.S. Letter press. Part I. 8vo. 

 and Illustrations, Parts I. to IX. inclusive. Folio. London, 1845, 

 1849. — From the Lords of the British Treasury, through the 

 Hon. George Bancroft. 



