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Stated Meeting, March 1. 



Present twenty-five members. 



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



Letters were received and read : — 



From Mr. J. R. Ingersoll, dated Washington, 19th January, 

 1845, announcing that he had received and forwarded a dona- 

 tion of books from the French Minister of War: — 



From the Royal Society of Antiquarians of the North, dated 

 Copenhagen, 14th May, 1844, announcing a donation to the 

 Library of the Society: — 



From the French Minister, dated Washington, 12th Febru- 

 ary, 1845, announcing a donation to the Society's Library: — 



From the American Colonization Society, dated Washing- 

 ton, 22d February, 1845, acknowledging the receipt of the 

 Transactions of the Society, and announcing a donation to the 

 Society's library :' — and. 



From Prof. S. S. Haldeman, dated Chicquesalunga, March 3, 

 1845, announcing the desire of the Allgemeine Schweitzer- 

 ische Gesellschaft fiir die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, at 

 Berne, Switzerland, to exchange publications with this So- 

 ciety. 



The above mentioned Society was placed upon the list of 

 exchanges of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Dictionnaire Francais-Berbere (dialecte ecrit et parle par les Kabailes 

 de la division d' Alger) ouvrage compose par ordre de M. le Mi- 

 nistre de la Guerre. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1844. 8vo. — 

 From the Minister of War, Paris. 



Rudiments de la Langue Arabe de Thomas Erpenius, traduits en 

 Fran9ais, accompagnes de Notes, et suivis d'un Supplement in- 

 diquant les differences entre le langage litteral et le langage vul- 

 gaire. Par A. E. Hebert, Capitaine du Genie. Paris, Impri- 

 merie Royale, 1844. 8vo. — From the same. 



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