291 



Stated Meeting, November 20. 



Present, twenty-three members. 



Dr. Chapman, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received and read: — 



From the Royal Lombardy Institute of Science, Letters and 

 Arts, dated Milan, June, 1S46, informing the Society that they 

 had forwarded donations of books, and asking, in exchange, 

 its publications: — 



From N. P. Rolando, dated London, October 8th, 1846, ac- 

 companying the communication from the Lombardy Institute, 

 and oflfering his services in transmitting donations: — 



From the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, dated Ber- 

 lin, August 1st, 1846, acknowledging the reception of the 

 Transactions of this Society, Vol. IX., Parts 1 and 2, and Pro- 

 ceedings, Nos. 28 to 34; the Transactions of the Historical and 

 Literary Committee, Vol. III., Part 1; and Dunglison's Dis- 

 course on Du Ponceau: — 



From the same, dated Berlin, August 1st, 1846, transmitting 

 a donation to the Society: — 



•From the Regents of the University of New York, dated 

 Albany, Nov. 11, 1846, acknowledging their having received 

 No. 35, Vol. IV., of the Proceedings of this Society: and, — 



From Maximilian, Prince of Wied, dated New Wied, on 

 the Rhine, March 26, 1845, acknowledging the notice of his 

 election as a member of this Society. 



The following donations were announced : — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu 

 Berlin. Aus dem Jahre, 1844. Berlin, 1846. 4to. — From the 

 Royal Academy of Berlin. 



Bericht iiber die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der 

 Konigl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Juli, 

 August, September, October, November, December, 1845. Jan- 

 nar, Februar, Marz, April, Mai, Juni, 1846. 8vo. — Fro7n the 

 same. 



