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Stated Meeting, February 6. 



Present, thirty-five members. 



Dr. Chapman, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received and read: — 



From the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, dated 

 January 31, 1846, enclosing a report of a Committee of the 

 Academy, calling the attention of this Society to the subject 

 of Meteorological Observations in North America, and sug- 

 gesting some alterations and improvements in the present sys- 

 tem : — 



From the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, dated 

 Sept. 11, 1845, announcing the transmission of some numbers 

 of the Bulletin of that Society: — 



From the Society of Natural History in the Mauritius: and. 



From Baron Von Hammer Purgstall, dated Vienna, Feb. 8, 

 1845, informing the Society that he had sent to it, as a dona- 

 tion, a set of the Vienna Review, for 1844, and another work. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou. Tome 



XVIII. Annee 1845. Nos. 2 and 3. Moscou, 1845. 8vo.— 



From the Society. 

 Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Library. Albany, Jan. 



9, 1846. 8vo. — From the Trustees. 

 Jahrbucher der Literatur. January to December, 1844. Vienna. 



8vo. — From Baron Von Hammer Purgstall. 

 Zeitwarte des Gebeles in Sieben Tageszeiten. Ein Gebetbuch, Ara- 



bisch und Deutsch. Herausgegeben von Hammer Purgstall. 



Wein, 1844. 12mo. — From the Author. 

 The Medical News and Library. Vol. IV. Feb. 1846. No. 38. 



8vo. — From Messrs. Lea 8^ Blanchard. 

 Address delivered at the University of Pennsylvania, before the Phi- 



lomathean Society, May 23d, 1845. By Renry D. Gilpin. 8vo. 



From the Author. 



ADDITION TO THE LIBRARY BY PURCHASE. 



Astronomische Nachrichten. No. 550, and Supplement, 4to. 



VOL. IV. — 2 H 



