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Stated Meeting, March 15. 



Present, sixteen members. 



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



Letters were received: — 



From Chief Justice Taney, dated Baltimore, March 9, 1844, 

 in acknowledgment of his election as a member of the So- 

 ciety : — 



From the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Dur- 

 ham, and Newcastle upon Tyne, dated Newcastle, Dec. 29, 

 1842, acknowledging the receipt of the Proceedings of the So- 

 ciety: — 



From John B. Sartori, dated Leghorn, Jan. 11, 1844, return- 

 ing thanks, on the part of his Imperial and Royal Highness, 

 the Grand Duke of Tuscany, for the Transactions of the Soci- 

 ety, and in relation to certain other packages sent to M. Sarto- 

 ri's care. 



The following donations were announced : — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Flora Batava, ou Figures at Descriptions de Plantes Belgiques. Par 

 Kops et Vander Trappen. Nos. 130 to 131. Amsterdam. 4to. 

 From H. M. the King of the Netherlands. 



Reports of the Natural History Society of the Counties of Northum- 

 berland, Durham, and Newcastle upon Tyne. For the Years 

 1831, 1834, 1835, 1336, 1837, 1838, 1840, 1841. 8vo.— From 

 the Society. 



A Catalogue of the Generic and Sub-generic Types of the Class Aves, 

 Birds, arranged according to the Natural System. Newcastle, 

 1840. 8vo. — From the same. 



Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologic. Tiende 

 Deel. 4* Stuk, Leiden, 1843. 8vo. — From the Editors, Van- 

 der Hoeven and De Vriese. 



Erster Zusatz zu der Schrift: Ueber den Galvanismus als Chemisches 

 Heilmittel u. s. w. Von Dr. Gustav Crusell. St. Petersburg, 

 1842. 8vo. — From the Author. 



Quadro Geografico-Ornitologica ossiu Quadro Comparative le Orni- 

 tologie di Malta, Sicilia, Roma, Toscana, Liguria, Nizza, e la 



