PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAIS^ PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. IV. JULY— DECEMBER, 1844. No. 31. 



Stated Meeting, July 1 9. 



Present fifteen members. 



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



Letters were announced and read: — 



From the Connecticut Historical Society, dated Hartford, 

 April 25, 1844, acknowledging the receipt of Nos. 28 and 29 

 of the Proceedings of the Society: — 



From the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 dated Philadelphia, June 23, 1844, acknowledging the dona- 

 tion by this Society of its Transactions, Vol. IX. Part 1. New 

 Series: — 



From M. Gustave d'Eichthal, dated Paris, Dec. 20, 1843, on 

 presenting a memoir on the primitive history of the Oceanic 

 and American races: — 



From Mr. F. Stoughton to Mr. Thos. Dunlap, dated New 

 York, June 25, 1844, in reference to a package from the So- 

 ciety, forwarded by Mr. Stoughton to the Royal Academy of 

 History at Madrid: — 



From the National Institute at Washington, in reference to 

 certain resolutions of the Committee of the Institute, concern- 

 ing the publication of a third part of the Proceedings of the 

 Institute: — 



From Dr. T. Romeyn Beck, dated Albany, July 1, 1844, 

 informing the Society, that by a late law, the State Library of 

 New York had been placed under the care of the Regents of 

 the University; and, also, in reference to certain deficiencies 



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