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to them for publication, and asked for an appropriation of 

 three hundred dollars, for publication purposes, which was 

 granted. 



Stated Meeting, ^pril 2. 



Present, twenty-one members. 



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



Letters were read: — 



From the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, dated 

 1 — 15 Sept. 1851; and from Wilhelm Braumiiller, on behalf 

 of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna, dated Vien- 

 na, 24th October, 1851, announcing the transmission of dona- 

 tions for the Library of the Society: — 



From the Royal Society of London, dated Somerset House, 

 Feb. 15, 1852, returning thanks for No. 46 of the Proceedings 

 of this Society: — 



From the Smithsonian Institution, dated Washington, March 

 24, 1852; — and from the Lyceum of Natural History, dated 

 New York, March 24, 1852, acknowledging the receipt of the 

 Proceedings, No. 47: and — 



From Mr. George Parish, dated Ogdensburg, N. York, 24th 

 March, 1852, in answer to a letteraddressed to him by the Se- 

 cretary of this Society, as directed at the meeting on 6th of 

 February last. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the 



year 1851. Part 2. 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society. Vol. V. No. 76. Vol. VI. Nos. 



78 to 82. 

 List of Officers and Fellows of the Royal Society, 30th Nov. 1851. 



London. 4to. — From the Society. 

 Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society : Vol. XX., being the 



Quarto Half Volume for the Session of 1850-51. London. 



4to. — From the Society. 



