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The Plough, the Loom and Anvil. Vol. IV. No. 2. August, 1851. 



Philadelphia. 8vo. — From F. G. SJdnne?', Esq. Editor. 

 Report of the Twentieth Meeting of the British Association for the 



Advancement of Science, held at Edinburgh, in July and August, 



1850. London, 1851. Svo. — From the Association. 

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



August, 1851. Philadelphia. Svo. — From the Institute. 

 The African Repository. Vol. XXVII. No. 8. August, 1851. 



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

 Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. Vol. V. No. 4. 



Newark, 1851. Svo. — From the Society. 



The minutes of the Board of Officers and Council of the So- 

 ciety, at their last meeting, were read. 



The Society then proceeded to the nomination and election 

 of a Treasurer, pro tern., and Mr. Trego was nominated and 

 elected. 



Pending nominations, Nos. 256 to 261, and new nomina- 

 tion, No, 262, were read. 



Stated Meeting, September 1 9. 



Present, seventeen members. 



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



Letters were read: — 



From the Etat Major of the Corps of Mining Engineers of 

 Russia, dated St. Petersburg, 6th — 18th of February, 1851; 

 from Charles C. Rafn, Secretary of the Royal Society of 

 Northern Antiquaries, dated Copenhagen, June 4, 1851; from 

 W. S. Derrick, Esq., Acting Secretary of State, dated Wash- 

 ington, 14th August, 185] ; from Drs. A. A. Gould and D. H. 

 Storer, acting in pursuance of the will of the late Dr. Amos 

 Binney, all announcing donations to the Society's library: 

 and — 



From the Royal Societ};^ of London, dated Somerset House, 

 June 25, 1851, acknowledging the receipt of No. 45 of the 

 Proceedings of this Society. 



