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Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: 

 Vol. VI. No. 7. Jan. and Feb. 1853. Philadelphia. 8vo.— 

 From the Academy. 



Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society : Vol. V. No. 4. 

 Newark, 1853. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. 3d Series. Vol. XXV. No. 4. 

 April, 1853. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From the Institute. 



The African Repository. Vol. XXIX. Nos. 1, 2, 3. Jan. Feb. March, 

 1853. Washington. 8vo. — From the American Colonization 

 Society. 



'The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. No. L. New Se- 

 ries. April, 1853. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Dr. Isaac Hays, 

 Editor. 



The Medical Examiner and Recoixl of Medical Science. New Series. 

 Vol. VIII. Nos. 8 to 12: Vol. IX. Nos. 1 to 4. Philadelphia, 

 1852-3. 8yo.— From Br. F. G. Smith, Editor. 



The Medical News and Library: Vol. XI. No. 124. April, 1853. 

 Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Blanchard ^ Lea. 



The Astronomical Journal. No. 55. (Vol. III. No. 7), March 28, 

 1853. Cambridge. 4to. — Fro7n Dr. B. A. Gould, jr., Editor. 



The Plough, the Loom and the Anvil. Vol. V. No. 4. April, 1853. 

 New York and Philadelphia. 8vo.— From F. G. Skinner, Edi- 

 tor. 



Thirty-fourth Annual Report of the Controllers of the Public Schools 

 of the City and County of Philadelphia, for the year ending June 

 30, 1852. Philadelphia. 8vo. — Donor unknoion. 



FOR THE CABINET. 



Specimens of Petrified Wood, altered by the heat of the conflagration 



at Barnum's Museum, in Philadelphia, Jan. 2, 1852 : and 

 An Indian Arrow from Oregon. — From Dr. Franklin Stewart. 



Dr. Boye referred to his communication to the Society at its last 

 meeting in regard to the decay of the articles deposited in the corner 

 stone of the Fligh School. He stated, that at the request of the Com- 

 mittee of the Controllers on Property, he had given the subject a 

 further careful examination, and he is now satisfied, that the water 

 must have got in from the outside by infiltration, first through the 

 mortar into the cavity, and afterwards from this through the sealing 

 wax, with which the glass stopper was secured. The corner stone 

 formed the lowermost north-west stone of the foundation of the main 

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