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Nominations No. 190 and 191 were read. 



Mr. Nulty asked permission to withdraw a communication, 

 now in the hands of the Publication Committee, in order that 

 he might offer a substitute. 



Stated Meeting, October 16. 



Present, twenty-nine members. 



Dr. Chapman, President, in the Chair. 



A letter was announced and read: — 



On behalf of the Nantucket Athenaeum, dated Nantucket, 

 October 12th, 1846, asking the Society to aid in the re-esta- 

 blishment of their library, destroyed by fire on the 13th and 

 14th ultimo, and "to spare a portion of their duplicate volumes 

 and such other works as they may feel quite free to bestow." 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



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

 ber, 1846. No. 10. 8vo. — From the American Colonization 

 Society. 



The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. Edited by Isaac 

 Hays, M.D. No. XXIV. New Series. October, 1846. 8vo.— 

 Frovn the Editor. 



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

 XLII. No. 250. Third Series. Vol. XII. No. 4. Svo.—From 

 Dr. R. M. Patterson. 



A Dictionary of Medical Science, containing a Concise Account of 

 the various Subjects and Terms; vi^ith the French and other 

 Synonymes, &c. By Robley Dunglison, M.D. Sixth Edition. 

 Revised and greatly enlarged. Philadelphia, 1846. 8vo. — From 

 the Author. 



New Remedies. By Robley Dunglison, M.D. Fifth Edition, with 

 extensive Additions. Philadelphia, 1846. 8vo. — From the same. 



Human Physiology. With three hundred and sixty-eight Illustra- 

 tions. By Robley Dunglison, M.D. Sixth Edition, greatly im- 

 proved. In Two Volumes. Philadelphia, 1846. 8vo. — From 

 the same. 



