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Stated Meeting, November 7. 



Present, twenty-five members. 



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



Letters were read: — 



From Professor Zantedeschi, dated Padua, 10th September, 

 1851; from John Leconte, dated New York, October 26, 1851; 

 and from Edward Hallowell, dated Philadelphia, November 5, 

 1851; severally acknowledging the receipt of notice of their 

 election as members of this Society. 



The following donations were announced : — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle : Publiees par les Profes- 

 seurs de cet Etablissement. Tome IV. ; Livraisons, 1, 2, 3, 4; 

 Tome v.; Livraisons, 1, 2, 3. Paris. 4to. — Frovi the Museum 

 of Natural History, Paris. 



Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Catalogue de la Collection 

 Entomologique: classe d'Insectes, Ordre des Coleopteres: pre- 

 miere et deuxieme livraisons. Catalogue Methodique de la Col- 

 lection des Reptiles: premiere livraison. Paris, 1850-51. 8vo. — 

 From the same. 



Journal Asiatique. Quatrieme Serie. Tome XVII. Paris, 1851. 

 8vo. — From the Asiatic Society of Paris. 



Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society. Vol. IV. No. 3. Oct. 

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



Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XIX; being the 

 quarto half volume for the session 1849-50. London, 1851. 

 4to. — From the Society. 



Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. X. Nov. 

 1849, to June, 1850. London. 8vo. — From the same. 



Contributions to Astronomy and Geodesy; forming part of Vol. XX. 

 of the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. By Thomas 

 Maclear, Esq., Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good 

 Hope. London, 1851. 4to. — From the same. 



Dell' Origine e Progresso della Fisica Teorica Sperimentale, nell' 

 Archiginnasio Padovano: Prelezione del P. Professore di Fisica, 

 Ab. Francesco Caval. Zantedeschi, membro del Reale Instituto 



