PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. IV. MAY— AUGUST, 1845. No. 33. 



Stated Meeting, May 2. 



Present, twenty-seven members. 



Prof. A. D. Bache, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Edward Miller, a member elect, was presented, and 

 took his seat. 



Letters were announced and read: — 



From the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, dated Paris, 15th 

 March, 1845, announcing the receipt of the Transactions and 

 Proceedings of this Society: and, — 



From the Bowditch Library, dated Boston, February, 1845, 

 acknowledging the receipt of a donation from this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOE THE LIBRARY. 



Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manu- 

 factures, and Commerce. Vol. LV. London, 1845. 8vo. — 

 From the Society. 



Third Bulletin of the Proceedings of the National Institute for the 

 Promotion of Science, Washington, D. C. February, 1842, to 

 February, 1845. Also, Proceedings of the Meeting of April, 

 1844. Washington, 1845. 8vo. — From the Institute. 



Report of the Aboriginal Names and Geographical Terminology of 

 the State of New York. Part I. Valley of the Hudson. Made 

 to the New York Historical Society, by Henry R. Schoolcraft. 

 New York, 1845. 8vo — From the New York Historical So- 

 ciety. 



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