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Stated Meeting, November 21. 



Present, twenty members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Drs. Edward Hallowell and Elisha K. Kane, newly elected 

 members, were presented to the presiding officer, and took 

 their seats. 



Letters were read: — 



From Lieut. Col. Edward Sabine, dated Woolwich, October 

 20, 1851, announcing a donation to the Society: — 



From W. H. Prescolt, dated Boston, November 15, 1851, 

 presenting, on the part of the author, the third volume of Don 

 Lucas Alaman's History of Mexico, which volume had not 

 been previously received: and — 



From Isaac R. Davis, dated Philadelphia, November 21, 

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

 member of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Historia de Mejico, desde los primeros movimientos que prepararon 

 su independencia en el ano 1808, hasta la epoca presente. Per 

 Don Lucas Alaman. Tomo III. Mexico, 1850. 8vo. — From 

 W. H. Prescott,for Don Lucas Alaman. 



Meteorological Register for twelve years, from 1831 to 1842, inclu- 

 sive : compiled from observations made by Officers of the Medical 

 Department of the Army, at the Military Posts of the United 

 States. Prepared under the direction of Brevet Brig. Gen. Thos. 

 Lavvson, Surgeon General U. S. Army. Washington, 1851. 

 8vo. — From General Lawson. 



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

 5. November, 1851. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 



The African Repository. Vol. XXVII. No. 11. November, 1850. 

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



Progress of Medicine during the first half of the Nineteenth Century: 

 being an Introductory Lecture to the Spring Session in the Phila- 

 delphia College of Medicine; delivered March 17, 1851. By 



