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The African Repository and Colonial Journal. Vol. XXIII. Novem- 

 ber, 1847. No. 11. 8vo. — From the American Colonization 

 Society. 



The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, 

 Botany, and Geology. Vol. XX. Sept. 1847. No. 132. 8vo. 

 From Sir IFm. Jardine, Bart. 



Twenty-ninth Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives. War 

 Department. Document, No. 211. Letter from the Secretary 

 of War, relative to the Mineral Lands on Lake Superior, accom- 

 panied with a Map. 8vo. — From the Hon. G. M. Dallas. 



An Attempt to Discover some of the Laws which govern Animal 

 Torpidity and Hibernation. By Peter A. Browne, LL.D. 8vo. 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY BY PURCHASE. 



Astronomische Nachrichten. Nos. 605, 606, 607, 608 and 609. 

 4to. 



Dr. Patterson read a letter from A. D. Bache, LL.D., dated 

 U. S. Coast Survey Station, near Berwick, on the subject of a 

 certain method of determining the sun's parallax, proposed by 

 Dr. Gerling of Masburg, and the memorial by Lieut. Gillis 

 upon the subject. 



And upon motion, the papers upon the subject were referred 

 to a Committee, consisting of Dr. Patterson, Mr. M'Culloh, and 

 Prof. Kendall. 



Pending nominations, from No. 197 to 202, were read. 



Mr. Ord moved the adoption of a substitute for chapter 1, 

 section 10, of the Laws of the Society. 



The subject was, according to the Laws of the Society, laid 

 over until the next stated meeting. 



And on motion of Judge Kane, the Librarian was requested 

 to give notice that the enacting of laws will be part of the busi- 

 ness of that meeting. 



On motion of Judge Kane, Mr. F. Peale, one of the Curators, 

 was authorized to withdraw from the cabinet, for a period not 

 exceeding ten da3^s, the manuscript of the Declaration of Inde- 

 pendence, the Jefferson Chair, and the portrait of Mr. Jeffer- 

 son, for the purpose of placing them for that time in the col- 

 lection about to be opened for exhibition at the hall of the 

 Musical Fund Society, for the benefit of the society. 



