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Curators. 

 Franklin Peale, 

 John C. Cresson, 

 M. Fisher Longstreth. 



Treasurer. 

 Charles B, Trego. 



A letter was read: — 



From the Secretaries of the Literary and Philosophical So- 

 ciety of Manchester, dated Nov. 27, 1851, transmitting thanks 

 for Nos. 45 and 46 of the Proceedings of this Society. 



The following donations were announced : — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Vol. XX. Parts 

 1 and 2, with Vol. XIX. Part 2, containing the Results of the 

 Makerstoun Magnetical and Meteorological Observations for 1845, 

 1846. Edinburgh. 4to. — From the Society. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Vol. II. No. 35 

 to Vol. III. No. 41. December, 1849, to March, 1851. Edin- 

 burgh. 8vo. — From the same. 



Report to General Sir Thomas Makdougal Brisbane, Baronet, &c. 

 &c. on the completion of the publication of the Observations made 

 in his Observatory at Makerstoun. By John Allan Broun, late 

 Director of the Observatory. Edinburgh, 1850. 4to. — From 

 the same. 



Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, for the Year 1850-51. 

 Vol. V. Part 1. Dublin, 1851. 8vo. — From the Academy. 



Journal of the Ethnological Society of London. Vol. I. 1848. Vol. 

 II. 1850. London and Edinburgh. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Remarks on the Nature, Objects and Evidences of Ethnological Sci- 

 ence : An Address read at the Ethnological Society, at a Con- 

 versazione on Wednesday, June 4, 1851. By Richard Cull, 

 Fellow and Honorary Secretary of the Ethnological Society. 

 London. 8vo. — From the same. 



Elementa di Fisica Generalee Sperimentale, ad uso delle Regie Scuole 

 di Filosofia, di G. D. Botto, Professore di Fisica Generale e Speri- 

 mentale nella R. Universita di Torino, &c. &c. Torino, 1860. 

 8vo. — From the Author. 



Catechismo Agrologico, ossia Principii di Scienza applicata all' Agri- 



