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Stated Meeting, May 3. 



Present, fourteen members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Royal Institute of Science, Belles-Lettres, and 

 Arts of the Netherlands, dated Amsterdam, 1849, acknowledg- 

 ing the receipt of the Transactions, Vol. X. Part 1, and Nos. 

 38, 39, 40 and 41, of the Proceedings of this Society: — 



From the Zoological Society of London, dated Hanover 

 Square, 22d December, 1849, acknowledging the receipt of 

 the Proceedings of this Society, July, 1846, to Vol. V. No. 

 42:— 



From the Corporation of the University in Cambridge, Mass., 

 dated Harvard College, Cambridge, 9th April, 1850, acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of No. 44 of the Proceedings of this So- 

 ciety: and — 



From P. A. Browne, Esq., dated Philadelphia, 26th April, 

 1850, in relation to his microscopic examination of hair from 

 the heads of ancient Peruvians, and a comparison of these speci- 

 mens with the hair of our present Indians, from which he in- 

 fers that they all belong to the same species. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. Vol. III. Parts 



5, 6. London, 1848-9. 4to. — From the Society. 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Part XV. Nos. 



178, 179, and Part XVI. Nos. 180 to 189, inclusive. London. 



8vo. — From the same. 

 Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Vol. IV. Part 2. 



Philadelphia, 1850. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XIX. No. 4. 



April, 1850. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 

 Flora Batava, of Afbeelding en Beschrijving van Nederlandsche 



Gewassen: door Jan Kops en J. E. Van der Trappen, &c. 160 



Aflevering. Amsterdam. 4to. — From H. M. the King of the 



Netherlands. 



