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publication of Prof. Loomis' paper on tiie Longitude of Hud- 

 son (Ohio) Observatory, was rescinded, in consequence of the 

 paper having already been published elsewhere by Prof. Loo- 

 mis. 



Stated Meeting, February 21. 



Present, twelve members. 



Dr. Patterson, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From Adolphus M. Hart, dated St. Louis, Missom-i, 7th 

 February, 1851, offering for sale a number of specimens of 

 Colonial Paper Money: and — 



From John Hill, Jr., M.D., dated Willimantic, Connecticut, 

 17th February, 1851, requesting to be furnished with a num- 

 ber of the Proceedings of the Society, and with a copy of its 

 Constitution and Laws. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. Vol. VI. No. 24. 



November, 1850. London. 8vo. — From the Society . 

 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XI. No. 2. 



December 13, 1850. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XXI. No. 2. 



Feb. 1851. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 

 An Introductory Lecture, delivered at the Opening of the Thirty-first 



Session of the Medical College of Ohio, November 4, 1850. By 



John Bell, M.D., Professor in the Institution. Cincinnati, 1850. 



Svo.-^From the Author. 

 A Folio Volume of the Works of James Petiver, F.R.S., containing 



his Gazophylacium Natures et Artis, and Museum Petiveriani ; 



with numerous engravings of Animals, Fossils, and Vegetables. 



Published in London, in parts or numbers, from the year 1695 



to 1713. Bound, and lettered on the back, " The Gift of Sir 



Hans Sloane, Baronet, to John Bartram, 1744." — From Col. 



Robert Carr. 

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