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Stated Meeting, Jan. 1 9. 



Present, twenty-eight members. 



Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received: — 



From the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manches- 

 ter, dated Manchester, Feb. 16, 1843, accompanying a dona- 

 tion of the Memoirs of that Society: — 



From Dr. Callisen, dated Altona, Oct. 23, 1843, acknow- 

 ledging his election as a member of this Society, and present- 

 ing a donation of books. 



The following donations were announced:— 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. 



Second Series. Vol. VII. Part 1. London, 1843. 8vo.— 



From the Society. 

 Journal Asiatique. Quatrieme Serie. Tome II. No. 7. Juillet, 



Aout, 1843. No. 8. Septembre, Octobre, 1843. 8vo.— From 



the Asiatic Society of Paris. 

 Annales des Mines. Quatrieme Serie. Tome III. 2e et 3e livrai- 



sons. 1843. 8vo. — From the Engineers of Mines, Paris. 

 Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. 



Vol. III. Calcutta, 1841. S^o.—From the Society. 

 Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. Vol. 



I. Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive. Calcutta, 1842. 8vo. — From the 



same. 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Vol. I. Nov. Dec. 1843. Nos. 32, 33. 8vo.— From the Aca- 

 demy. 

 The American Journal of Science and Arts. Vol. XL VI. No. 1. 



January, 1844. 8vo. — From the Editors. 

 Zoological Contributions. By S. S. Haldeman. No. 3. January, 



1844. 8vo. — From the Author. 

 Douzieme et Treizieme Rapports sur les Travaux de la Societe d'His- 



toire Naturelle de I'lle Maurice, lus dans les Seances anniver- 



saires du 24 Aout, 1841, et du 24 Septembre, 1842. Par M. L. 



Bouton. Maurice, 1843. 4to.^From M. L. Bouton. 

 Report of the Committee appointed to inspect the Machine lately 



