203 



Stated Meeting, Nov. 7. 



Present, twenty members. 



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



Letters were received and read : — 



From the Central Committee of Statistics of Belgium, dated 

 Brussels, 6th April, 1845: — 



From the Minister of Finance of Russia, dated St. Peters- 

 burg, 23d October, 1844, respectively announcing donations to 

 the Library: — 



From A. T. Kupffer, dated St. Petersburg, 15-27th October, 



1844, accompanying a donation to the Library, and asking of 

 the Society to send their publications in exchange: — 



From M. Gustave d'Eichthal, dated Paris, 7th July, 1845, 

 announcing a donation to the Society: — 



From Col. Jos. G. Totten, dated Washington, 3d Novem- 

 ber, 1845, announcing a donation to the Society: — 



From F. Fraley, Esq., dated Philadelphia, 17th October, 



1845, in reference to the obituary notice of Professor Keating: 

 and, — 



From Dr. Ducatel, dated Baltimore, 20th October, 1845, 

 asking to be excused from the duty of preparing an obituary 

 notice of the late Mr. Nicollet. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Observations made at the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory, 

 at Toronto, in Canada. Printed by order of Her Majesty's Go- 

 vernment, under the superintendence of Lieut. Colonel Edward 

 Sabine, of the Royal Artillery. Vol. I. 1840, 1841, 1842. 

 London, 1845. 4to. — From the British Government, through 

 the Hon. Edicard Everett. 



Statistique de la Belgique. Population. Mouvement de I'Etat Civil 

 pendant I'annee, 1843. Public par le Ministre de I'lnterieure, 

 (M. Nothomb.) Bruxelles, Decembre, 1844 Folio. — From the 

 Belgium Central Commission of Statistics. 



Annates des Mines. Redigees par les Ingenieurs des Mines. Qua- 



