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Stated Meeting, October 15. 



Present, eighteen members. 



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



Dr. Mutter, a newly elected member, was introduced, and 

 took his seat. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Society of Antiquaries, London, dated Somer- 

 set House, Aug. 31, 1852,— and from the Leeds Philosophical 

 Society, dated Philosophical Hall, Leeds, Sept. 4, 1852, — ac- 

 knowledging the receipt of the Proceedings of this Society, 

 No. 47:— 



From Dr. Martyn Paine, dated New York, Oct. 5, 1852, 

 announcing that he has forwarded, as a donation to the Society, 

 sundry works of which he is the author: and — 



From Dr. B. A. Gould, jr., dated Cambridge, Oct. 7, 1852, 

 acknowledging the receipt of the subscription money for Vol. 

 2 of the Astronomical Journal, — and asking the Society " to 

 accept the Journal as a gift hereafter." 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XXIV. No. 



4. October, 1852. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 

 Memoir of Robert Troup Paine: by his Parents. Printed for private 



distribution. New York, 1852. 4to. — From Dr. Martyn Paine. 

 Medical and Physiological Commentaries: by Martyn Paine, M.D. 



A.M. 3 vols. 8vo. 'Niiw Yov\i,lMQ. —From the Avttior. 

 The Institutes of Medicine: by Martyn Paine, A.M. M.D. Prof. Inst. 



Med. in the University of New York. New York, 1847. 8vo. — 



From the same. 

 Materia Medica and Therapeutics : by Martyn Paine, A.M. M.D., 



(fee. &c. New York, 1848. 8vo. — Fi'om the same. 

 A Discourse on the Soul and Instinct, physiologically distinguished 



from Materialism : by Martyn Paine, A.M. M.D., &c. &c. New 



York. 1849. 8vo. — From the same. 

 Lectures on the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph, with a Historical Ac- 



