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Stated Meeting, March 5. 



Present, twenty-three members. 



Dr. Bache, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received and read: — 



From Mr. John P. Brown, dated Constantinople, August 

 SOth, 1846, announcing a donation to the Library: — 



From A, D. Bache, Superintendent U. S. Coast Survey, 

 dated Washington, 26th Jan., 1847, announcing a donation : — 



From the New Jersey Historical Society, dated Newark, 

 22d February, 1847, acknowledging the receipt of the Transac- 

 tions and Proceedings of this Society: and, — 



From the Proprietors of the Bowditch Library, dated 28th 

 February, 1847, acknowledging the receipt of the Proceedings 

 of this Society. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Memoires presentes a I'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint- 

 Petersbourg, par divers savans, at lus dans les Assemblees. 

 Tome V. 6 Livraisons. Tome VI. Ire Livraison. Saint- 

 Petersbourg, 1846. 4to. — From the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Memoires de I'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg. 

 VIme Serie. Sciences Mathematiques, Physiques et Naturelles. 

 Tome VII. Seconde Partie. Sciences Naturelles. Tome V. 

 3me et 4me Livraisons. Saint Petersbourg, 1846. 4to. — From 

 the same. 



Memoires de I'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg. 

 VIme Serie. Sciences Mathematiques, Physiques et Naturelles. 

 Tome VIme. Premiere Partie. Sciences Mathematiques et Phy- 

 siques. Tome IVme. 2me Livraison. Saint-Petersbourg, 

 1845. 4to. — From the same. 



Transactions of the Geological Society of London. Second Series. 

 Vol. VII. Part 3. London, 1846. 4to.— From the Geologi- 

 cal Society. 



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

 VII. November 13th, 1846. No. 9. 8vo. — From the Society. 



