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The chair was then taken by Dr. Franklin Bache, the 

 President elect. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Hon. John P. Kennedy, Secretary of tlie Navy, 

 acknowledging the receipt of the resolutions passed at the last 

 meeting; and expressing his gratification at the action of the 

 Society in relation to the recommendations in his late report, 

 with regard to the Expedition to the Arctic regions, and the 

 furtherance of scientific inquiry: — 



From Don Severiano Moraleda, dated Cadiz, Nov. 20, 1852, 

 in relation to a donation for the Library of the Society, from 

 the Director of the Hydrographic Department, at Madrid: — 



Fi'om Don Jorge Lasso de la Vega, dated Direccion de Hi- 

 drografia, Madrid, October 19, 1852, announcing a donation 

 of maps, charts and books, from that Department to the Socie- 

 ty, with a catalogue of the same: and — 



From the Royal Institution, dated Albemarle street, Lon- 

 don, Nov. 30, 1852, accompanying a donation for the Library, 

 and requesting that copies of the publications of the Society 

 may be presented to the Royal Institution. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Memoh-es de PAcademie Imperiale des Sciences do St. Petersbourgo 

 VI. Serie. Sciences Mathematiques, Physiques et Naturelles. 

 Tome VIII. Seconde Partie. Sciences Naturelles. Tome VI. 

 livraisons 3, 5, 6. St. Petersbourg, 1849. Ato.—Fi'oin the Im- 

 pei'ial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. 



Memoires presentes a I'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Pe- 

 tersbourg, par divers Savants, et lus dans ses assemblies. Tome 

 VI. livr. 2, 3. St. Petersbourg, 1848, 1849. Ato.— From the 

 same. 



Stellarum Fixarum imprimis duplicium et multiplicium positiones 

 mediae, pro epocha, 1830, 0. Auctore F. G. W. Struve. St. 

 Petersburg, 1852. Folio. — From the same. 



Sur les Dimensions des Anneaux de Saturne : par M. Otto Struve. 

 St. Petersburg, 1852, 4to. — Fro?n the same. 



Resultats des Operations Geodesiques de M. M. G. Fuss, Sawitsch et 



