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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. VII. 

 January 9, 1846. No. 3. 8vo. — From the same. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, January 21, 

 February 18, 1846. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Proceedings of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Vol. I. 

 March, 1846. No. 5. 8vo. — This number contains the Jour- 

 nal of Isaac Senter, physician and surgeon to the troops detached 

 from the American army encamped at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 

 on a secret expedition against Quebec, under the command of 

 Col. Benedict Arnold, in September, 1775. — From the Society. 



Proceedings of the Providence Franklin Society. Vol. I. April, 

 1846. No. 1. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Catalogue of the New York State Library, January 1, 1846. — From 

 the Trustees. 



Fifty-ninth Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the 

 State of New York, made to the Legislature, March 1, 1846. 8vo. 

 From the Regents. 



The African Repository and Colonial Journal. Vol. XXII. May, 

 1846. No. 5. 8vo. — From the American Colonization So- 

 ciety. 



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

 Series. Vol. XI. April, 1846. No. 4. 8wo.— From Dr. Pat- 

 terson. 



An Account of the Portage Rail Road over the Alleghany Mountain, 

 in Pennsylvania. By S. W. Roberts, Principal Assistant Engi- 

 neer thereon. Philadelphia, 1836. 12mo. — From the Author. 



Prof. Frazer, on the part of the Committee to w^hom the 

 communication of Major J. D. Graham, read at the last meet- 

 ing, was referred, recommended the publication of the same 

 in the Transactions of the Society, which was so ordered. 



Dr. Bache reported the death of Prof. T. W. Bessel, of the 

 University of Kbnigsberg, a member of this Society. 



Prof. Frazer referred to the principal labours of Prof. Bessel, 

 and moved that Prof. Kendall be requested to prepare a notice 

 of his contributions to science. 



Mr. C. 0. Boutelle presented to the Society, through Dr. 

 Patterson, a work by him, entitled "Tables of Bearings, Dis- 

 tances, Latitudes, and Longitudes, ascertained by the Astrono- 

 mical and Trigonometrical Survey of Massachusetts." Dr. 

 Patterson made some observations on this survey of Massa- 



