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ciety's Proceedings; and as Reporter for the present year, he 

 announced that No. 29 of the Proceedings, to April last, would 

 be issued in a day or two; and that both numbers would be 

 distributed together to non-resident members. 



Stated Meeting, May 17. 



Present, twenty-two members. 



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



Letters were announced and read: — 



From the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences at Munich, 

 dated June 23, 1843, requesting an interchange of Transac- 

 tions, &c., between the two Societies, and enclosing a list of 

 the prizes proposed by the Mathematico-physical class of the 

 Academy for the year 1843. 



On motion of Mr. Kane, it was resolved that the Royal Ba- 

 varian Academy should be placed on the list of correspondents 

 of the Society, and that the Transactions and Proceedings of 

 the Society should be regularly transmitted to it. 



From the New York Historical Society, dated New York, 

 May 8, 1844, acknowledging the receipt of the Transactions 

 of the Society: — 



From the Baron de Ladoucette, dated Paris, February 20, 

 1844, on presenting a copy of a work of which he is the au- 

 thor: — 



From Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, dated Washington, May 6, 1844, 

 stating that his public occupations would render it impossible 

 for him to perform the task assigned him, of delivering an 

 obituary notice of the late Mr. Chew. 



The following donations were announced: — 



rOR THE LIBRARY. 



Almanach der koniglichen bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaf- 

 ten. Miinchen, 1843. 12mo. — From the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences of Munich. 



