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Stated Meeting, *^pril\Q. 



Present, eighteen members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A letter was read from the President of the Corporation of 

 Harvard College, dated Cambridge, Mass., March 16, 1852, 

 acknowledging the receipt of No. 47 of the Proceedings of 

 the Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Flora Batava, of Afbeelding en Beschrijving van Nederlandsche 

 Gewassen. door wijlen Jan Kops, vervolgd door P. M. E. Ge- 

 vers Deijnoot. 166 Aflevering. Amsterdam. 4to. — From H. 

 M. the King of the Netherlands. 



The Eighteenth Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic 

 Society. 1850. Falmouth. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. March, 1852. 

 Boston. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XXIII. No. 4. 

 April, 1852. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 



The African Repository. Vol. XXVIII. Nos. 3 and 4. March 

 and April, 1852. Washington. 8vo.— From the Am. Coloni- 

 nation Society. 



Annals of the Minnesota Historical Society, 1 852 : containing the 

 Annual Address, by J. H. Simpson, 1st Lieut. Corps Topogra- 

 phical Engineers, and other Papers. Published by order of the 

 Executive Council. St. Paul, Min. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Second Report on Meteorology to the Secretary of the Navy, Nov. 

 12, 1849. By James P. Espy. Washington. 4to. — From Hon. 

 James Cooper, U. S. Senate. 



Memorial of Alfred Guthrie, a practical engineer, submitting the Re- 

 sults of an Investigation made by him into the Causes of the 

 Explosion of Steam Boilers. Washington, Feb. 1852. 8vo. — 

 From the same. 



Executive Documents, 2d Session of 31st Congress, 1850-51. 8 vols. 



Senate Documents, „ „ 5 „ 



D. Do. Miscellaneous, „ „ 1 vol. 



