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Prof. William Chauvenet, U. S. Naval Academy. 



Daniel Kirkwood, of Pottsville, Pa. 



Prof. Francesco Cav. Zantedeschi, of Padua. 



Stated Meeting, May 2. 



Present, twenty-three members. 



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



Dr. Thomas S. Kirkbride, Dr. Caspar Morris, Dr. William 

 Pepper, Mr. Jacob C Morris, Mr. Stephen Colwell, and Rev. 

 Dr. Boardman, recently elected members, were presented and 

 took their seats. 



Letters were read: — 



From Isaac Hazlehurst, dated Philadelphia, April 19; Rev. 

 Henry A. Boardman, dated Philadelphia, April 21 ; Dr. Joseph 

 Pancoast, dated Philadelphia, April 22; William Chauvenet, 

 dated Annapolis, Md. April 22; Dr. Thomas D. Mutter, dated 

 Philadelphia, April 24; and Robert Patterson, dated Philadel- 

 phia, April 26, respectively acknowledging the receipt of no- 

 tice of their election as members of this Society: — 



From the Royal Society of Sciences at Gottingen, dated 

 9th February, 1851, acknowledging the receipt of Nos. 43 and 

 44 of the Proceedings of this Society: — and 



From the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, 

 dated Society's Rooms, George street, April Sth, 1851, ac- 

 knowledging the receipt of the Proceedings of this Society. 



The following donations were announced : — 



FOR THE library. 



Journal Asiatique. IV Serie. Tome XVI. Paris, 1850. 8vo. — 



From the Asiatic Society of Paris. 

 Annales des Mines. Tome XVIII. 4 & 5 Livraisons de 1850. Paris. 



8vo. — From the Engineers of VEcole des Mines. 

 Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. No. 18. May 1, 1849. 



London. 8vo. — (Not previously received). — From the Society. 



