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Stated Meeting, October 7. 



Present, thirteen members. 



Dr. Franklin Bache, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Zoological Society of London, dated Hanover 

 Square, August, 1853, returning thanks for Vol. X. Part 2, of 

 the Transactions of this Society, and for No. 48 of the Pro- 

 ceedings : — 



From the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, dated 

 August 29, 1853, acknowledging the receipt of the Transac- 

 tions, Vol. X. Part 2:— 



From the Natural History Society of Northumberland, 

 Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, dated Newcastle, 25th 

 August, 1853, returning thanks for Vol. X. Part 2, of the 

 Transactions, and for the Proceedings of the year 1852: — 



From Dr. G. B. JVIassone, General Secretary of the Medico- 

 Chii'urgical and Natural Science Academy at Genoa, dated 5th 

 Sept. 1853, announcing an intended donation for the Library 

 of the Society: and — 



From Dr. A. L. Crelle, dated Berlin, 2d Sept. 1853, ac- 

 knowledging the receipt of his certificate of membership in 

 this Society, and expressing regret that his absence from home 

 deprived him of the pleasure of seeing two of our members 

 from Philadelphia, who called at his house in Berlin during 

 the past summer. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Annuaire de la Societe Imperiale des Antiquaires de France, 18.53. 



Paris. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. Vol. IX. Part 3. (No. 



35). Aug. 1, 1853. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 

 Report of the Twenty-second Meeting of the British Association for 



the Advancement of Science, held at Belfast in September, 1852. 



London. 8vo. — From the Association. 

 Pennsylvania Archives: selected and arranged from original doeu- 

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