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Stated Meeting, March 21. 



Present, fourteen members. 



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



A letter was read : — 



From Dr. A. Dallas Bache, Superintendent of the United 

 States Coast Survey, dated Washington, 27th December, 1850, 

 announcing the transmission of a donation to this Society, by 

 direction of the Treasury Department. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Astronomical and Magnetical and Meteorological Observations, made 

 at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the Year 1848, under 

 the Direction of George Biddell Airy, Esq., M.A., Astronomer 

 Royal. Published by Order of the Board of Admiralty. Lon. 

 don, 1850. 4to. — From the Royal Society of London. 



Observations made at the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory 

 at Hobarton, in Van Diemen Island, and by the Antarctic Naval 

 Expedition. Printed by Order of Her Majesty's Government, 

 under the Superintendence of Lieut. Col. Edward Sabine, R. A. 

 Vol. 1. commencing with 1841; with Abstracts of the Observa- 

 tions from 1S41 to 1848, inclusive. London, 1H50. 4to.~JProm 

 the British Government. 



U. S. Coast Survey Maps: 1. Cat and Ship Islands: 2. Hyannis 

 Harbour: 3. Pasquotank River. — From the U. S. Treasury De- 

 partment, 



Bibliotheca Firmiana, sive Thesaurus Librorum. 9 Vols. 4to. Me- 

 diolani, 1783. — From Dr. L. Turnhull. 



The Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society. Vol. III. No. 12. 

 London, Jan. 1, 1851. 8vo. — From the Society. 



The African Repository. Vol. XXVII. No. 3. March 1851. Wash- 

 ington. 8vo. — From the American Colonization Society. 



On the Velocity of the Galvanic Current in Telegraph Wires. By 

 B. A. Gould, Jr. (Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, Jan. 1851.) New 

 Haven. Svo. — From the Author. 



The Twenty-third Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the 



