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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XIII. No. 

 3. Jan. 14, 1853. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 



The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers : — Containing plans for the protec- 

 tion of the Delta from inundation; and investigations of the prac- 

 ticability and cost of improving the navigation of the Ohio and 

 other rivers by means of reservoirs: — With an Appendix on the 

 Bars at the mouths of the Mississippi. By Charles Ellet, Civil 

 Engineer. Philadelphia, 1853. 8vo. — From the Author. 



Message from the President of the United States, communicating a 

 Report of Lieut. Meigs, with surveys, plans and estimates for sup- 

 plying the cities of Washington and Georgetown with water. 

 Feb. 22, 1853. Washington. 8vo. — From Lieut. Bleigs. 



Third Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Bellefon- 

 taine and Indiana Railroad Company, to the Stockholders. Jan. 

 12, 1853. Cleveland, O.— 8vo.— i^rom W. Milnor Roberts, 

 Esq. Engineer. 



Maps of Lake Erie, and of the West End of Lake Erie and Detroit 

 river; from Surveys under the direction of the Topographical 

 Bureau of the War Department. Washington, 1852. — From, 

 Major Hartman Bache, U. S. A. 



Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the House of Re- 

 fuge, with an Appendix. Philadelphia, 1853. 8vo. — From James 

 J. Barclay, Esq. 



The Astronomical Journal, No. 54. (Vol. III. No. 6.) March 15, 

 1853. Cambridge. 4to.— From Dr. B. A. Gould, jr. Editor. 



The committee to which was referred Dr. Leconte's Paper 

 on the Classification of the Carabidse of the United States, 

 made report, recommending its publication in the Transactions, 

 which was ordered accordingly. 



On motion of Prof. Frazer, he was excused from preparing, 

 a necrological notice of Sears C. Walker, deceased, — and A. 

 Dallas Bache, LL.D., was requested to prepare such notice. 



Dr. Boye called the attention of the Society to the uncertainty of 

 preserving papers, documents and coins in corner stones of buildings. 

 On recently opening the corner stone of the present High School 

 building of this city, erected 15^ years ago, in order to deposit its 

 contents in the new building about to be erected, the papers &c., 

 which had been deposited in a sealed glass jar, were found to be in a 

 perfectly decayed condition, and so saturated with water, that about 



