PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 



Vol. IV. JULY— DECEMBER, 1846. No. 36. 



Stated Meeting, July 17. 



Present, seventeen members. 



Dr. Chapman, President, in the Cliair. 



Letters were received and read: — 



From the Prince of Canino and Musignano, dated Rome, 

 June 8th, 1846, calling the attention of the Society to the ap- 

 proaching meeting of "Scienziati Italiani:" and, — 



From Col. Abert, dated Washington, July 14, 1846, accom- 

 panied by an obituary notice of the late Mons. Nicollet, pre- 

 pared by him for the Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Abhandlungen der Mathem. Physikalischen Classe der Koniglich 

 Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Vierten Bandes 

 Zweite Abtheilung. In der reihe der denkschriften der xix. 

 band. Miinchen, 1845. 4to. — From the Academy of Sciences 

 of Munich. 



Bulletin der Konigl. Academie der Wissenschaften. 17th September 

 to 8th November, 1844. Nos. 51 to 57, inclusive. 1st January 

 to 2d December, 1845. Nos. 1 to 52, inclusive. 1st to 7th Janu- 

 ary, 1846. Nos. 1 to 5. 4to. — From the same. 



Andentungen zur Charakteristik des Organischen Lebens nach fei- 

 nem Austreten in den verschiedenen Erdperioden. 4to. — From 

 the same. 



Almanack der Koniglichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaf- 

 ten fiir das Jahr, 1845. 12mo. — From the same. 



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