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On motion of the Librarian, he was authorized to distribute 

 the remaining copies of the Eulogium delivered on Rittenhouse 

 by Dr. Rush. 



Stated Meeting, Dec. 6. 



Present, thirty-three members. 



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



Letters were announced and read: — 



From Professor Bujalsky, of St. Petersburg, accompanying 

 the donation of a work on astronomy: — and 



From Professor A. D. Bache, superintendent of the survey 

 of the coast of the United States, dated Washington, Nov. 1, 

 1844, accompanying the sheets of a Map of New York Bay and 

 Harbour, presented by him to the Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land. Vol. VIII. Part 1. Whole number, XV. 8vo.— From 

 the Society. 



Journal Asiatique. Quatrieme Serie. Tome IV. Nos. 16, 17. 

 Juillet, Aout, 1844. 8vo. — From the Asiatic Society of Paris. 



Map of New York Bay and Harbour, and the Environs. Founded 

 upon a Trigonometrical Survey, under the direction of F. R. 

 Hassler, Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United 

 States. Triangulation by James Ferguson and Edmund Blunt, 

 Assistants. The Hydrography under the direction of Thomas 

 R. Gedney, Lieut. U. S. Navy. The Topography by C. Renard 

 and J. A. Jenkins, Assistants. Published in 1844, and presented 

 under authority of an Act of Congress of the United States of 

 June 3d, 1844, and by direction of the Treasury Department. 

 A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the Coast Survey. In four 

 Sheets. — From the Treasury Department, through Prof. A. D. 

 Bache. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



