PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAIV PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. IV. JULY— DECEiMBER, 1847. No. 39. 



Stated Meeting, July 16. 



Present, eighteen members. 



Dr. Chapman, President, in the Chair. 



Professor Procter, a newly elected member, was presented 

 to the President, and having signed the laws, took his seat. 



Letters were received and read: — 



From the Royal Asiatic Society, dated London, 17th April, 

 1847, acknowledging the receipt of Vol. IX., Part 3, of the 

 Transactions of the Society, and of Nos. 34 and 35, Vol. IV., 

 of the Proceedings of the Society: — 



From the Geological Society of London, dated Somerset 

 House, 29th April, 1847, returning thanks for Vol. IX., Part 

 3, of the Transactions, and Nos. 34 and 35, of the Proceed- 

 ings:— 



From the Corporation of the University of Cambridge, 

 Mass., dated 16th April and 24th May, 1847, acknowledging 

 the receipt of Nos. 36 and 37, of the Proceedings, and of Vol. 

 IX., Part 3, of the Transactions of this Society: — 



From the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, dated 26th 

 April, 1847, announcing donations of books to this Society, 

 and acknowledging the receipt of Dr. Patterson's Early His- 

 tory of the Society, and the Transactions and Proceedings of 

 this Society: — 



From the Regents of the University of the State of New 

 York, ex officio Trustees of the State Library, dated Albany, 

 24th May, 1847, acknowledging the receipt of the Proceed- 

 ings of this Society: — 



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