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All other business having been concluded, the ballot boxes 

 were opened, and the following named gentlemen were de- 

 clared, by the presiding officer, to be duly elected members of 

 the Society: — 



John Neill, M. D., of Philadelphia. 



John J. Reese, M. D., „ 



Prof. J. S. Hubbard, of National Observatory, Washington. 



Prof. W. C. Bond, of Cambridge, Mass. 



Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, of Philadelphia. 



Mr. John Cassin, „ 



Prof. J. H. Alexander, of Baltimore. 



Stated Meeting, May 21. 



Present, twenty-five members. 



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



Letters were read: — 



From W. Hunter, Acting Secretary, dated Department of 

 State, Washington, May 18, 1852, announcing the return of 

 Sayer and Bennett's Map of the United States, lent by this 

 Society, in 1828, to the U. S. Government, for use on the 

 question of the North-eastern Boundary: — 



From A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the U. S. Coast Sur- 

 vey, dated Washington, April 6, 1852, accompanying a dona- 

 tion of sundry Coast Survey Maps, for the Society's Libra- 

 ry :— 



From Prof. J. S. Hubbard, dated Observatory, Washington 

 City, May 10, 1852; and from Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, dated 

 Philadelphia, May 19, 1852, — severally acknowledging the 

 receipt of notice of their election as members of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



for the library. 

 Addresses delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives, at 

 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday evening, April 6, 1852, 

 by William V. Pettit and Rev. John P. Durbin, D. D. Published 



