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Letters were received: — 



From the Geological Society of London, dated Nov. 2, 

 1843, — the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufac- 

 tures and Commerce, dated November 3, 1843, — the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences of Berlin, dated August 15, 1843, — and 

 the Museum of Natural History of Paris, dated Nov. 9, 1843, 

 acknowledging the receipt of Transactions and Proceedings of 

 this Society : — 



From the Royal Academy of Sciences of Copenhagen, dated 

 May 12, 1843, and the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, 

 dated August 15, 1843, announcing the transmission of dona- 

 tions: — 



From Albert Gallatin, dated New York, December 19, 1843, 

 on the subject of certain Maps lent by this Society to the Go- 

 vernment of the United States, and announcing that they can- 

 not be recovered in consequence of their having been appropri- 

 ated to public purposes : — 



From Henry Denny, dated Leeds, Nov. 4, 1843, stating the 

 intention of the Philosophical and Literary Society of Leeds 

 to become a correspondent of this Society: — 



From B. Silliman, Jr., Secretary of the Association of Ame- 

 rican Geologists and Naturalists, dated December 23, 1843, 

 announcing that the Annual Meeting of the Association will 

 take place at Washington on the 10th of May next: — 



From M. Orazio de St. Angelo, dated New York, Decem- 

 ber 29, 1843, on the subject of a donation from Signer di 

 Luca, of Naples. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Address of the Most Noble the Marquis of Northampton, the Presi- 

 dent, read at the Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society, on 

 Wednesday, November 30, 1842. 8vo.— From the Royal So- 

 ciety of London. 



Transactions of the Philosophical and Literary Society of Leeds, 

 consisting of Papers read before the Society. Vol. I. Part 1. 

 London, 1837. 8vo. — From the Society. 



The Laws and Regulations of the Philosophical and Literary Society 



