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4. That when the reports of the several Committees shall 

 hereafter be presented to the Society, such disposition and ac- 

 tion shall be had in relation thereto as shall be judged proper. 



Stated Meeting, October 20. 



Present, twenty-eight members. 



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



Letters were received and read: — 



From the Librarian of Brown University, acknowledging 

 the receipt of the 26th and 27th numbers of the Proceedings: 

 and — 



From S. S. Haldeman, Esq., dated Columbia, Pa., 4th Oct. 

 1843, transmitting a copy of the sixth number of his Mono- 

 graph of Fresh Water Univalves. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Proceedings of the Geological Society of London. Vol. IV. Part 1. 

 No. 93. 1843. 8vo.— From the Society. 



Title and Index to the Fifth Volume of the Monthly Notices of the 

 Royal Astronomical Society. — From the Society. 



The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Vol. XIX. 

 Part Second. London, 1843. 4to. — From the Society. 



List of the Linnean Society of London. 1843. 4to. — From the 

 same. 



Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Nos. 15 to 18, in- 

 clusive. 1842-43. 8vo. — From the same. 



Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Vol. XV. Part III. 

 Containing Papers read during the Session 1842-43. Edin- 

 burgh, 1843. 4to. — From the Society. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1842-43. Nos. 21, 

 22. 8vo. — From the same. 



The American Journal of Science and Arts. Vol. XLV. No. 2. 

 October, 1843. New Haven, October 6, 1843. 8vo.— From 

 the Editors. 



