PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. L NOVEMBER & DECEMBER, 1838. No. 5. 



Stated Meeting, November 2. 

 Present, twenty-eight members. 

 Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 

 The following donations were received : — 



FOE THE LIBRARY. 



Nieuwe Verhandelingen der Eersteklasse van het Koninklijk-Ne- 

 derlandsche Instituut te Amsterdam. Vols. VI. & VII. Amster- 

 dam, 1837 & 1838. — From the Institute. 



Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiederris en Physiologie. ■ Uitge- 

 geven door J. van der Hoeven, M. D. en W. H. de Vriese, M. D. 

 Vol. IV. Leyden, 1837 & 1838.— From the Minister of the 

 Interior of the Netherlands. 



Flora Batava. Nos. 108 & 114. Amsterdam. — From the same. 



The American Journal of Science and Arts. Conducted by Benja- 

 min Silliman, M. D., aided by Benjamin Silliman, Jr., A. B. Vol. 

 XXXV. No. 1. New Haven, 1838. — From the Conductors. 



Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. Vol. IV. 

 Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 4. New York, 1837.— From the Lyceum. 



A View of the Commerce between the United States and Rio de 

 Janeiro, Brazil. By John M. Baker, late U. S. Consul for Rio de 

 Janeiro. Washington, 1838. — From Mr. John Vaughan. 



Museum Ichthyologicum, sistens Piscium qui in Museo L. T. Gronovii 

 adservantur, Descriptiones. Amsterdam, 1754. — From the same. 



