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The Committee (Dr. Patterson, Professor Frazer, and Mr. 

 Downes), to whom had been referred JNIr. Sears C. Walker's 

 paper on the planet Neptune, read 19th February, 1847, re- 

 ported, recommending its publication in the Transactions of 

 the Society, which was ordered accordingly. 



Dr. Patterson read a letter from Mr. Walker, dated Wash- 

 ington, 31st March, 1847, containing some observations con- 

 cerning the identity of the planet lately discovered, with that 

 of Leverrier. 



Dr. Ludlow, from the Committee appointed to consider the 

 propriety of amending the laws regulating nominations for 

 membership, made a report, which was laid on the table. 



Mr. Ord presented a letter, directed to C. W. Bacon, Esq., 

 from Alexander Ray, of Washington City, asking that an exa- 

 mination might be made of the papers of the late Chas. Pettit, 

 now in the Library of the Society, in order to discover whe- 

 ther there are among them any documents illustrative of cer- 

 tain claims for revolutionary services. 



Whereupon leave was granted to Mr, Bacon to examine 

 the said papers, under the direction of the Librarian. 



Stated Meeting, ^pril 16. 

 Present, twenty-seven members. 

 Dr. Chapman, President, in the Chair. 

 The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the 

 Year 1846. In Four Parts. 4to. — From the Royal Society of 

 London. 



List of the Royal Society, 30th November, 1846. 4to. — From the 

 same. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Nos. 62 to 66, inclu- 

 sive. November 27th, 1845, to November 30th, 1846. 8vo. 

 From the same. 



