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Stated Meeting, October 3. 



Present, thirteen members. 



Dr. Patterson, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Corporation of the University in Cambridge, Mas- 

 sachusetts, dated Harvard College, Cambridge, July 16, 1S51, 

 acknowledging the receipt of the Proceedings of this Society, 

 No. 46: and — 



From M. Quetelet, Secretary of the Royal Academ)^ of Sci- 

 ence, Letters and the Fine Arts, of Belgium, dated Brussels, 

 14th September, 1851, announcing the transmission of a dona- 

 tion to this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Quarterly .Journal of the Geological Society. Vol. VII. No. 27. 



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

 Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XXII. No. 3. 



September, 1851. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 

 American Journal of the Medical Sciences. No. XLIV. New Series. 



October, 1851. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Editor, Dr. Isaac 



Hays. 

 The Medical News and Library. Vol. IX. No. 106. Oct. 1851. 



Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Blanchard S^ Lea. 

 A Manual for Attendants in Hospitals for the Insane. By John Cur- 

 wen, M.D., Superintendent and Physician of the Pennsylvania 



State Lunatic Hospital. Philadelphia, 1851. 12mo. — From the 



Author. 

 The Field Practice of laying out Circular Curves for Rail Roads. 



By John C. Trautwine, Civil Engineer. Philadelphia. 1851. — 



From the Author. 



Pending nominations, Nos. 25Q to 262, inclusive, were 

 read. 



