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1820, and her engine taken out, after which she sailed as a 

 packet, from New York to Savannah, until September, 1822, 

 when she was lost. This log-book was supposed to derive 

 additional interest from the recent arrival of the Sirius and 

 Great Western, steam-ships, at New York, from England. 



Dr. Mitchell repeated before the Society Thilorier's pro- 

 cess for solidifying carbonic acid, with an apparatus, made 

 under his direction in Philadelphia, somewhat modified from 

 that employed by Thilorier, and froze a quarter of a pound of 

 mercury by the admixture of the solidified acid with nitrous 

 ether. 



Stated Meeting, May 18. 

 Present, fifteen members. 

 Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 

 The following donations were received: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Transactions of the Geological Society of London. Vol. V. Part I. 

 London, 1838. — From the Society. 



A Catalogue of the Circumpolar Stars, deduced from the Observa- 

 tions of Stephen Groombridge. Edited by Sir George -B. Airy. 

 London, 1838. — From the Lords Commissioners of the Admi- 

 ralty. 



Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 

 Part VIII. London, 1837. — Frcm the Society. 



American Journal of the Medical Sciences. Edited by Isaac Hays, 

 M. D. No. 43, for May. Philadelphia, 1838.— From the Editor. 



Fables and Phrases in the Seneca Language. 1836. — From Na- 

 thaniel J. Strong, a Seneca Chief. 



Report of the Directors of the Little Schuylkill and Susquehanna 

 Rail Road Company. Philadelphia, 1838. — From J. C. Mont- 

 gomery, Esq. 



C. Hugenii Aliorumque Seculi XVII Virorum Celebrium Exercita- 

 tiones Mathematics et Philosophies. Ex MSS. in Bibliotheca 

 Academiee Lugduno-Batavte servatis edidit P. J. Uylenbroek. 

 Fasc. I. & II. Hague, 1833. — From the Leydcn Academy. 



