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Stated Meeting, February 21. 



Present, thirty-one members. 



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



Letters were received and read: — 



From the Institute of France, dated Paris, 14th November, 

 1844, and the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, respec- 

 tively acknowledging the receipt of the Transactions and Pro- 

 ceedings of this Society: — 



From the Royal Academy of Sciences of Brussels, dated 

 11th October, 1844, acknowledging the receipt of the Transac- 

 tions and Proceedings of this Society, and transmitting certain 

 works: — 



From a Committee of the Law Academy, dated Philadelphia, 

 19th February, 1845, asking permission of the Society to have 

 a copy made of the portrait of the late President, Mr. Du 

 Ponceau, belonging to this Society : — 



From Bishop Hughes, dated New York, February 8, 1845, 

 on forwarding a package of books to the Society, — and 



From Richard Seldiner, Vice Consul of Sweden and Nor- 

 way, dated Philadelphia, 21st February, 1845, on transmitting 

 a package of books for the Society, from M. Berzelius of Stock- 

 holm. 



The request contained in the letter from the Committee of 

 the Law Academy was granted. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Nouveaux Memoires de I'Academie Royals des Sciences et Belles- 

 Lettres de Bruxelles. Tome VIII. Bruxelles, 1834. 4to. — 

 From the Royal Academy of Sciences. 



Memoires Couronnes, et Memoires des Savants Etrangers, publics 

 par I'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Brux- 

 elles. Tome XVI, 1843. Bruxelles, 1844. ^to.— From the 

 same. 



Annuaire de I'Academie Royale des Sciences, etc. de Bruxelles. 

 Dixieme Annee, 1844. 18mo. — From the same. 



Bulletins do I'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de 



