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Proceedings of the London Electrical Society. Sessions of 1842-3. 



Edited by the Secretary. London, July 1, 1842. 8vo. — From 



the Society. 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Vol. II. No. 12. Nov. Dec. 1845. 8vo.— From the Academy. 

 The Electrical Magazine. Conducted by Mr. Charles V. Walker. 



Vol. I. No. 2. October, 1843. Svo.—From the Editor. 

 Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania. Third 



Series. Vol. XI. January, 1846. No. 1. 8vo. — From Dr. 



Patterson. 

 The African Repository and Colonial Journal. Vol. XXII. Feb- 

 ruary, 1846. No. 2. 8vo — From the American Colonization 



Society. 

 The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful 



Knowledge. For the Year 1846. 12mo. — From Petty 



Vaughan, Esq. 

 Notes on the Iroquois; or Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal 



History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New 



York. By Henry D. Schoolcraft. New York, 1846. 8vo. — 



From the Author. 

 A Brief Account of the Processes employed in the Assay of Gold and 



Silver Coins, at the Mint of the United States. 8vo. — From Dr. 



Robert M. Patterson. 

 Act of January 18, 1837, relative to the Mint and Coinage of the 



United States. 8vo. — From the same. 



The Committee appointed at the last meeting to report upon 

 the communication from the Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 offered the following resolutions. 



Resolved, That the American Philosophical Society adopt the 

 recommendation of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

 to unite with them in a memorial to the Government, asking 

 an extension of meteorological observations to remote military 

 posts, to some of the posts and lighthouses on our coasts, and 

 to certain other points to be designated in the memorial. 



Resolved, That the Franklin Listitute of Pennsylvania be 

 invited to join in said memorial, and in a circular to the Legis- 

 latures of the States, and to individuals. 



Dr. Boye exhibited to the Society a specimen of Brown He- 

 matite Ore from Chester Ridge, three-fourths of a mile west of 



