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Judge Kane announced the death of the Hon. John Sergeant, 

 a member of the Society, who died on the 23d ultimo, in the 

 73d year of his age. 



The Treasurer presented his Annual Report, which was read, 

 and referred to the Committee of Finance. 



No report being received from the Committee of Publica- 

 tion, the subject was postponed to the next meeting. 



Nominations for membership were read. 



Stated Meeting, December 17. 



Present, thirty members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Pancoast, a recently elected member, was introduced 

 and took his seat. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Hon. Edward Everett, Secretary of State, dated 

 Department of State, Washington, 15th December, 1852, on 

 returning Dunn's Map of the British Empire, of 1774, loaned 

 by this Society, in 1828, to the United States' Commission for 

 submitting the question of the disputed North-eastern boundary 

 to the arbitration of the King of the Netherlands: and — 



From the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, dated 

 Moscow, 4 — 16 June, 1852, accompanying a donation for the 

 Library. 



The following donations were announced: — • 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou. Annee 



1851. Nos. 3, 4. Annee 1852. No. 1. Moscou. 8vo. — From 



the Society. 

 Die Mineral Regionen der obern Kalbinsel Michigan's, N. A. am 



Lake Superior und die Isle Royal. Von C. L. Koch, &c. &c. 



Mit einer geognostischen Karte. Gottingen, 1852. 8vo. — From 



Prof. Hausmann. 

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