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Stated Meeting, November 18. 



Present, ten members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Etat Major of the Corps of Mining; Engineers of 

 Russia, dated St. Petersburg, May, 1853; from the Royal 

 Saxon Society of Sciences, dated Leipsic, 23d May, 1853; 

 from the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, dated Mu- 

 nich, 4th June, 1853; from the Imperial Academy of Sciences 

 at Vienna, dated 29th June and 24th August, 1853; and from 

 the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, dated Berlin, 15th 

 Sept. 1853, — respectively accompanying donations for the 

 Library: — 



From W. Haidinger, dated Vienna, 11th June, 1853, in re- 

 lation to a future correspondence of the Imperial Geological 

 Institute of Austria with this Society; and from the same, on 

 behalf of the Direction of the Imperial Geological Institute, 

 dated Vienna, 21st August, 1853, accompanying a donation 

 for the Library of the Society: — 



From the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin, dated 15th 

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

 ciety's Transactions: — 



From the Royal Danish Society of Sciences, dated Copen- 

 hagen, 7th July, 1853, acknowledging the receipt of Nos. 43 

 to 47 of the Proceedings: and — 



From the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, dated Phila- 

 delphia, Nov. 15, 1853, and from the Trustees of the State 

 Library of New York, dated Albany, Nov. 4, 1853, commu- 

 nicating their thanks for No. 49 of the Proceedings. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Naturwissenschaftliche Abhandlungen; gesammelt und dnrch sub- 

 scription herausgegeben von VVilhelm Haidinger. Band I. II. III. 

 IV. Wien, 1847-1851. 4to. — From the Imperial Geological 

 Institute, Vienna, per W. Haidinger. 



