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The Treasurer made a statement as to the present condition 

 of the debt due to the estate of Mr. Dunn. 



Stated Meeting, August 21. 



Present, seventeen members. 



Dr. Chapman, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received and read : — 



From the Royal Institute of Sciences, Belles Lettres, and 

 Arts, of the Low Countries, dated March 30th, 1846, an- 

 nouncing a donation to the Library of the Society: — 



From the Lyceum of Natural History, dated New York, 

 August 3d, 1846, acknowledging the reception of Vol. IX. 

 Part 2, of the Transactions of the Society: — 



From the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, 

 dated August 6th, 1846, stating that a copy of the Memoirs of 

 the Academy, Vol. II., New Series, had that day been for- 

 warded to the American Philosophical Society. (This volume 

 had not been received, and a notice to that effect was forwarded 

 by one of the Secretaries.) — 



From Professor John Muller, of Berlin, dated May 20th, 

 1846, acknowledging his election as a member of this Society: 

 and, — 



From the Central Commission of Statistics of Belgium, dated 

 Brussels, March 15, 1846, with a donation to the Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Flora Batava, ou Figures et Descriptions de Plantes Belgiques. Par 

 Jan Kops et J. E. van der Trappen. Nos. 133, 138, 139, 140, 

 141. 4to. — From H. M. the King of the Netherlands. 



Nieuwe Verhandelingen der Eerste Klasse van het Koninklijk-Neder- 

 landsche Instituut van Wetenschappen, Letterkunde en Schoone 

 Kunsten et Amsterdam. Twaalfden Deels Tweede Stuk. Am- 

 sterdam, 1846. 4to. — From the Royal Institute of the Nether ^ 

 lands. 



