Stated Meeting, Sept. 17. 



Present, thirteen members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Geological Society of London, dated Somerset 

 House, 6th Nov. 1S51, returning thanks for No. 46 of the 

 Proceedings of this Society : — 



From the Lyceum of Natural History, dated New York, 

 Sept. S, 1852, acknowledging the receipt of the Society's 

 Transactions, Vol. X. Part 2: and — 



From Count Joseph Telsky, dated Pesth, 4th May, 1852, 

 announcing the transmission of a donation to the Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOK THE LIBRARY. 



Historische en Letterkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche 



Maatschappy der Wetenschappen te Haarlem. Eerste Deel. 



Haarlem, 1851. 4to. — From the Holland Society of Sciences 



at Haarlem. 

 Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of 



Science. Sixth Meeting, held at Albany, N. Y. August, 1851. 



Washington. 8vo. — From the Association. 

 Journal of the Franklin Institute. 3d Series. Vol. XXIV. No. 3. 



Sept. 1852. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 

 The African Repository. Vol. XXVIII. No. 9. Sept. 1852. Wash- 



ington. 8vo. — From the American Colonization Society. 

 Description of the Skeleton of the Mastodon Giganteus of North 



America. By John C. Warren, M. D., &c. &c. Boston, 1 852. 



4to. — From the Author. 

 American Journal of Science and Arts. Vol. XIV. No. 41. Sept. 



1852. New Haven. 8vo. — From Profs. Silliman 6^ Dana, 



Editors. 

 Report of the Officers constituting the Light House Board, convened 



under instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury, to inquire 



into the condition of the Lisfht House Establishment of the Uni- 



