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the large one must have been a crown jewel, rather than a veritable 

 pendant for the ear or nose. 



On motion, the use of the Hall was tendered to the Associa- 

 tion of Medical Superintendents of Hospitals and Asylums for 

 the Insane, for the purpose of holding their proposed meetings. 



Stated Meeting, May 16. 



Present, fifteen members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Robert Patterson, recently elected a member, was pre- 

 sented, and took his seat. 



Letters were read: — 



From Dr. William Shippen, dated Philadelphia, 15th May, 

 1851, acknowledging the receipt of notice of his election as a 

 member of this Society, and declining the acceptance thereof: 

 and — 



From the Cambridge Philosophical Society, dated Cam- 

 bridge, 1st January, 1851, announcing the transmission of 

 their Transactions, Vol. IX. Part 1, as a donation to this So- 

 ciety. 



The following donations were announced: — 



Foil THE LIBRARY. 



Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the 

 Year 1850. Part 2. London, 18-50. 4to. — From the Royal 

 Society. 



List of the Council and Fellows of the Royal Society, Nov. 30, 1850. 

 4to. — From the same. 



Astronomical, and Magnetical and Meteorological Observations, made 

 at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the Year 1849, under 

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

 Royal. London, 1850. 4to. — From the same. 



Results of Observations made by the Rev. Fearon Fallowes, at the 

 Roval Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, in the Years 1829, 



