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of Finance take order for the performance of the duties of the 

 office. 



Pending nominations, Nos. 256 to 261, inclusive, were 

 read. 



Stated Meeting, August 15. 



Present, five members. 



Dr. Patterson, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From A. T. Kupffer, Director of the Central Physical Ob- 

 servatory at St. Petersburg, dated 15th — 27th June, 1851, in 

 relation to an exchange of publications with this Society: — 



From Wilhelm Braumiiller, publishing agent of the Im- 

 perial Academy of Sciences at Vienna, announcing a donation 

 from the Academ}^: — 



From the Linnean Society of London, dated Soho Square, 

 June 1851, returning thanks for the Proceedings of this So- 

 ciety, No. 45: — 



From the American Antiquarian Society, dated Worcester, 

 Mass., July 17, 1851, — and from the Regents of the Universi- 

 ty of the State of New York, dated Albany, July 21, 1851, 

 acknowledging the receipt of No. 46 of the Proceedings. 



The following donations were announced : — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. — 

 Philosophisch-historische Classe. Jahrgang, 1850. (Jan. to 

 Dec.) Wien, 1850. 8vo. — From the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences at Vienna. 



Archiv fur Kunde oesterreichischer Geschichts-Quellen. Herausgege- 

 ben von der zur Pflege vaterlandischer Geschichte aufgestellten 

 Commission der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 

 Jahrgang, 1850. I Band, 1, 2, 3, 4 Heft. II Band, 1 Heft. 

 Wien, 1850. 8vo. — From the same. 



Pontes Rerum Austriacarura. Oesterreichische Geschichtsquellen. 

 Herausgegeben von der Historischen Commission der Kaiserlichen 



