PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICA:^ PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. IV. JUNE to DEC. 1843. No. 28. 



Stated Meeting, June 16. 

 Present, twenty-nine members. 



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



Letters were received: — 



From the Secretary of the Zoological Society of London, 

 dated 4th Oct. 1842, acknowledging the receipt of the Pro- 

 ceedings of this Society: — 



From B. Silliman, Jr. Esq., dated New Haven, 5th June, 

 1843; Robert Gilmor, Esq., dated Baltimore, 20th April, 

 1843; Rev. Alonzo Potter, dated Union College, 5th June, 

 1843; and J. H. Alexander, Esq., dated Baltimore, 12th 

 June, 1843, in reference to the centennial celebration; and 

 John W. Gibbs, Esq., dated Philadelphia, 26th May, 1843, 

 presenting a fac simile of certain writings of Franklin. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. No. 56. Dec. 8, 1842, 

 to March 23, 1843. 8vo.~From the Society. 



The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. Vol. XIX. Part II. 

 Dublin, 1843. 4to. — From the Academy. 



Journal de Pharmacia at de Chimie. 8vo. Troisiema Serie. Tome 

 2. Nov. Dec. 1842. Tome 3. Jan. Fev. 1843.— From the So- 

 ciety. 



Statistics of the United States of America, as collected and returned 

 by the Marshals of the several Judicial Districts under the 13th 



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