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Bulletin de la Societe Ethnologique de Paris. Tome premier, Annee 



1846. Annee 1847. Janvier a Mars. 8vo. — From the Ethno- 

 logical Society of Paris. 



Summary of the Transactions of the College of Physicians of Phila- 

 delphia. From June to November, 1847, inclusive. Vol. II. 

 No. 3. Svo. — From the College, 



Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania. Vol. 

 XLIV. No. 264. Third Series. Vol. XIV. December, 1847. 

 No. 6. Svo. — From the Institute. 



Proceedings of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Vol. I. 

 February, No. 9. March, No. 10. September, No. 12. 1847. 

 Svo. — From the Society. 



Fisher's National Magazme and Industrial Record. Published by 

 Reawood Fisher, New York. Vol. I. June to November, 1S45. 

 Vol. II. December, 1845, to May, 1846. Vol. III. June to 

 November, 1846. — From Thomas Gilpin, Esq. 



Females and their Diseases ; a Series of Letters to his Class. By 

 Charles D. Meigs, M.D. Philadelphia, 1848. Svo.— From the 

 Author. 



Memoir of Francis Baily, Esq., D.C.L. Oxford and Dublin, Presi- 

 dent of the Royal Astronomical Society, &c. djc. By Sir John 

 F. W. Herschel, Bart. Svo. Accompanied with a Portrait, en- 

 graved by Thomas Lupton, from the original painting, by Thos. 

 Phillips, R.A., of Mr. Baily. — From the Rev. R. Sheepshanks. 



A Brief Notice of the Life, Researches, and Discoveries of F. W. 

 Bessel. By Sir J. F. W. Herschel. Svo. — From the same. 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRAKY BY PURCHASE. 



Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Par MM. Gay-Lussac, Arago, 

 Chevreul, etc. Troisieme Serie. Tome XXI. Septembre, 

 Octobre, 1847. Svo. 



Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de I'Academie des 

 Sciences. Tome XXV. Nos. 5 a 16. 2 Aout, 18 Octobre, 



1847. 4to. 



On motion of Dr. Patterson, the Committee on the Solar 

 Eclipse, appointed at the meeting of the 6th December, 1844, 

 was discharged. 



Judge Kane announced the death of Chancellor James Kent, 

 of New York, a member of this Society, who died on the 12th 

 instant, at the age of 85 ; when on motion of Mr. G. W. Smith, 



