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The Clerk read the proceedings of the Board of Officers and 

 Council at a special meeting held this evening. 



Mr. Peale laid upon the table for the inspection of members 

 of the Society, the Certificate of Membership of his father, 

 which bears date July, 1786, and is signed by B. Franklin, as 

 President. 



Stated Meeting, December 6. 



Present, eighteen members. 



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



Letters were read: — 



From the Royal Danish Society of Sciences of Copenhagen, 

 dated 14th November, 1849, returning thanks for the Transac- 

 tions, Vol. IX. Part 3d, and Vol. X. Part 1, and for Nos. 38 

 to 42, of the Proceedings of this Society: — 



From the same, of same date, announcing a donation: and — 



From John M. Bernhisel, agent of the inhabitants of the 

 Territory of Utah, accompanying a printed circular, soliciting 

 donations of books for a library for the inhabitants of said 

 Territory. 



The following donations were announced: — 



roil THE LIBRARY, 



Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. Femte 

 Roekke. Naturvidenskabelig og Mathematisk Afdeling. Forste 

 Bind. Kiobenhavn, 1849. 4to. — From the Royal Danish So- 

 ciety of Sciences, Copenhagen. 



Oyersigt over det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhand- 

 lingar, og dets Medlemmers Arbeider, i Aaret 1847, 1848. Ki- 

 obenhavn, 1848-9. 8vo. — From the same. 



Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. Vol. V. No. 2. 

 185U. 8vo. — Fro?n the Society. 



Journal of the Acaden^y of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. New 

 Series. Vol. II. Part 1. Philadelphia, Nov. 1850. 4to.— 

 From the Academy. 



