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Stated Meeting, August 1 5. 



Present, nineteen members. 



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



Letters were received and read : — 



From the Royal Society of Sciences of Copenhagen, dated 

 Copenhagen, 9th April, 1844, transmitting donations, and ac- 

 knowledging the receipt of Transactions and Proceedings of 

 the Society: — 



From the Holland Society of Sciences at Harlem, dated 

 Harlem, 21st November, 1842, accompanying a donation, and 

 acknowledging the receipt of Transactions of this Society. 



An extract of a letter from the Prince of Canino and Mu- 

 signano, to the Librarian, was read, dated Rome, 12th July, 

 1845, expressing his acknowledgments to the Society for the 

 honour conferred upon him, in having been chosen as the re- 

 presentative of the Society at the Seventh Congress of the Ita- 

 lian Association, to be held at Naples in September next. 



Letters were further received and read: — 



From Mr. Irwin, Minister from the United States at Copen- 

 hagen, dated Copenhagen, 1st December, 1844, announcing the 

 transmission of a donation from Prof. Abrahams, of the Uni- 

 versity of Copenhagen: and, — 



From Mr. John B. Sartori, dated Leghorn, 29th April, 

 1845, on transmitting a piece of what he terms "Fixed Mer- 

 cury," the secret of which he possesses, and suggesting to the 

 Society the propriety of encouraging the operation, which, he 

 thinks, may be an object of very great importance to the Mint 

 of the United States to possess; and offering to dispose of the 

 secret to the Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Naturvidenskabelige 

 og Mathematiske Afhandlinger. Tiende Deal. Copenhagen, 

 1843. 4to. — From the Royal Society of Sciences of Copen- 

 hagen. 



