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Stated Meeting, June 21. 



Present, twenty -four members. 



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



Letters were announced and read: — 



1. From M. Quetelet, President of the Commission Centrale 

 de Statistique, of Belgium, dated Bruxelles, Jan. 31, 1844, on 

 transmitting the first volume of the Bulletin of the Commis- 

 sion, and stating that it would be agreeable to the Commission 

 to receive in exchange any American publications connected 

 with statistics, and the sciences relating thereto: — 



2. From the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, dated 

 Moscow, Sept. 28, 1843, accompanying a donation of Transac- 

 tions of that Society: — 



3. From the Massachusetts Historical Society, dated Boston, 

 May 31, 1844, acknowledging the receipt of Vol. IX. Part 1, 

 of the new series of the Transactions of the Society: — 



4. From the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, dated London, March 1, 1844, inviting the members 

 of the Society to the next meeting of the Association, to be 

 held in the City of New York, on the 26th of Sept. 1844: — 



5. From Prince Maximilian de Wied, (being an extract from 

 a letter from him to Dr. Morton,) dated Nieu-VVied on the 

 Rhine, and accompanying a donation of his Travels into the 

 interior of North America, from 1832 to 1834: — 



6. From Professor Riimker, dated Hamburg, April 23, 1844, 

 containing the elliptic elements, ephemeris, and a comparison 

 with the observations of the Comet discovered by Mr. Bremi- 

 ker, calculated by Mr. Gotze: — 



Perihelion passage, 1840, Jan. 318d.70143 m. t. Berlin. 



*Longitude of the ascending node, 248° 55' 57". 15 



"Inclination of the plane of the orbit, 57 57 51.59 



Distance of perihelion from node, 133° 36' 8". 33 



Angle of eccentricity = p of Gauss, 76 5 21.52, where sin p = e 



Log. of least distance, 0.1705436 



Log. of semi-axis major, 1.7032559 



Log. J> = Log. ( 1 — c) , 8.4672877 



* Referred to the ecliptic and the mean equinox of 1841, Jan. 0. 



