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Stated Meeting, July 16. 



Present, ten members. 



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



Letters were read: — 



From the Committee on the Library of Congress, dated 

 Washington, June 29, 1852; from the Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, dated Washington, June 28, 1852, and from 

 the New Jersey Historical Society, dated Newark, June 30, 

 1852, returning acknowledgments for Vol. X. Part 2, of the 

 Transactions of this Society: — 



From the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, dated 

 Boston, June 23, 1852, acknowledging the receipt of Vol. X. 

 Part 2, of the Transactions, and of 12 Nos. of the Proceed- 

 ings of this Society: — 



From Prof. W. C. Bond, dated Cambridge, June 23, lS52, 

 acknowledging the receipt of notice of his election as a mem- 

 ber of this Society: and — 



From B, F. French, dated New York, June 30, 1852, soli- 

 citing a donation of " some of the volumes published by the 

 Society" to the New Orleans Fisk Free Library. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Memoires de I'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des 



Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Tomes XXIV. XXV. Bruxelles, 1850. 



AXo.—From the Academy. 

 Memoires Couronnes, et Memoires des Savants Etrangers : publics 



par I'Academie Royale des Sciences, &c., de Belgique. Tome 



XXIII. 1848-50. 4to.— From the same. 

 Bulletins de PAcademie Royale des Sciences, &c., de Belgique. Tome 



XVI. 2eme. Partie, 1849: Tome XVII. lere et 2eme Parties. 



1850. Tome XVIII. lere Partie. 1851, evo.—From the 



same. 

 Annuaire de I'Academie Royale des Sciences, &c., de Belgique. 



1850-1851. Annees 16, 17. Bruxelles. 12mo.— From the 



same. 



