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Stated Meeting, August 1 9. 



Present, five members. 



Dr. Dtjnglison, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read:-— 



From the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, dated Mu- 

 nich, 6th Nov. 1852, announcing the transmission of a dona- 

 tion to the Society, and also acknowledging the receipt of No. 

 47 of the Proceedings: — 



From the Hon. A. Dudley Mann, Acting Secretary of State, 

 dated Washington, July 29, 1853, announcing a donation of 

 49 volumes of Congressional Documents, from the Department 

 of State, for the Society's library: — 



From Mr. George Ord, dated July 17 and July 25, 1853, 

 declining, for reasons given, the preparation of obituary no- 

 tices of Dr. Charles Caldwell and Dr. Philip Tidy man: and — 



From Mr. John J^enthall, dated Washington, August 4, 

 1853, in relation to an obituary notice of the late Samuel Hum- 

 phreys, which he was some time since requested to prepare for 

 the Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THK LIBRARY. 



Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie. IV. Serie. Tome V. Paris, 



1852. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Abhandlungen der Math. Phys. Classe der Koniglich Bayerischen 



Akademie der Wissenschaften. Band VI. Abth. 3. Miinchen, 



1852. 4to. — From the Academy. 

 Bulletin der Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1852. Nos. 



1-24. Miinchen. 4to. — From the same. 

 Gelehrte Anzeigen: herausgegeben von Mitgliedern der Konigl. 



Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. XXXIV. Band. 



Miinchen. 4to. — From the same. 

 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XIII. 



No. 8. June 10, 1853. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Astronomical Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory in the 



year 1851. By Manuel J. Johnson, M.A. Radcliffe Observer. 



