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Stated Meeting, January 21. 

 Present, twenty-three members. 

 Dr. Franklin Bache, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From Baron Joseph Voa Hammer Purgstall, dated Vienna, 

 7th Nov. 1851, accompanying a donation for the Library, and 

 in relation to an exchange of the pubhcations of the Lnperial 

 Academy of Sciences at Vienna, and those of this Society: 

 and — 



From the Albany Institute, dated Albany, Jan. 11, 1853, 

 announcing a donation for the Library, and acknowledging the 

 receipt of certain Nos. of the Proceedings of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle: publiees par les Profes- 

 seurs Administrateurs de cet Etablissement. Tome V. liv. 4. 

 Tome VI. liv. 1, 2. Paris. 4to. — From the Museum. 



Catalogue Methodique de la Collection des Mammiferes ; — de la Col- 

 lection des Oiseaux, et des Collections annexees : par le Prof. Ad- 

 ministrateur, M. Isidore GeotTroy de St. Hilaire, et les Aides Na- 

 turalistes, M. M. Florent Prevost et Pucheran. I. Partie. Paris, 

 1851. 8vo. — Catalogue Methodique de la Collection des Rep- 

 tiles, 2e livr. par le Prof. Administrateur, M. C. Dumeril, &c. 

 Aide Naturaliste, M. Aug. Dumeril, &c. Paris, 1851. 8vo. — 

 From the same. 



Jahrbiicher der Literatur. Bande 125 to 128 inclusive. Jan. Dec. 

 1849. Vienna. Bvo. — From the Baron J. Von Hammer 

 Purgstall. 



Rede des Prasidenten der Kaiserlichen Akad. der Wissenschaften, 

 Freiherrn Von Rammer Purgstall, bei der feierlichen Eroffnung 

 derselben am 2 Februar. 1848. 8vo. — Frojn the same. 



Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. New 

 Series. Vol. II. Part 3. Philadelphia. 4to. — From the Aca- 

 demy. 



Transactions of the Albany Institute. Vol. II. Albany, 1833, 1852. 

 8vo. — From the Institute. 



