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Histoiredel'AcademieRoyaledes Sciences. 1699—1701. 63 vols. 4to. 



Miscellanea Berolinensis, 7 vols. 4to. 



Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, 15 vols. 4to. 



Ames Art of Printing, 1 vol. 4to. 



Jobannis Bernouilli Opera, 4 vols 4to. 



Jacobi Bernouilli Opera, 5 vols. 4to. 



Nevpton's Principia, 4 vols. 4to. 



Traite des Sections Coniques, 1 vol. 4to. 



MacLaurins Fluxions, 1 vol. 4to. 



Smith's Optics, 1 vol. 4to. 



Priestley's Optics, 1 vol. 4to. 



Franklin's Electricity, 1 vol. 4to. 



Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1 vol. 4to. 



Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 vols. 4to. 



Transactions Royal Society, Edinburg. 



Fabricii Bibliotheca Grseca, 10 vols. 4to 



Repertory of Arts and Manufactures. 



Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine. 



Pennant's British Zoology. 



The lecturer, whose intimate knowledge of our antiquarian 

 lore, rendered him eminently suitable to his subject, was lis- 

 tened to, with marked attention; and many expressions of 

 gratification at his success was elicited from those present. 



At the conclusion of these, the Institute adjourned. 



Friday, April 24, 1857. 



Evening meeting at half past seven o'clock. Rev. John L. 

 Russell, Vice President, in the chair. 



Records of preceding meeting read. 



Donations to the Library announced, from Joseph Dana 

 Weed, Albert Fearing of Boston, Benjamin F. Browne, Samuel 

 M. Worcester, St. Louis Academy of Science, S. B. Ives. 



Donations to the cabinets from John Phillips, Thomas Hunt, 

 G. A. Perkins. 



Letter from the Corresponding Secretary of the St. Louis 

 Academy of Science was read. 



The Chair announced several plants, which had been col- 



