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Stated Meeting, April 20. 

 Present, thirty-four members. 

 Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 

 The following donations were received: — 



FOR THE LIREARY. 



Flora Batava. Nos. 111,112, &113. Amsterdam, 1838.— From 



the King of the Netherlands. 

 Tijdschrifl voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie. Uitgegeven 



door J . Van der Hoeven, M. D., en W. H. de Vriese, M. D. Vol. 



IV. Part I. & IT. Ley den, 1837. — From the same. 

 Asiatic Researches of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Vol. XIX. 



Part I., and Vol. XX. Part I. Calcutta, 1836.— From the So- 

 ciety. 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society. Edited hy James Prinseps, Secretary. 



Vol. V. Calcutta, 1836.— From the Editor. 

 Useful Tables, forming an Appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic 



Society. By H. Piddington. Part IV. Calcutta, 1836. — From 



James Prinseps, Esq. 

 Useful Tables. Part II. Indian Chronological and Genealogical 



Tables. Calcutta, 1836. — From the same. 



Mr. Kane deposited with the Society the writing chair used 

 by Mr. Jefferson at his lodgings, during the Congressional Ses- 

 sion of 1776. 



Mr. Lea read a Note supplementary to his Memoir, now 

 in the Society's press, on the subject of the Uniones, and per- 

 mission was given to add the same to the principal commu- 

 nication. 



The following candidates were elected members : — 



William Harris, M. D., of Philadelphia. 



Robert Treat Paine, of Boston. 



John P. Emmet, M. D., of the University of Virginia. 



Hugh S. Legare, of Charleston, S. C. 



Samuel Breck, of Philadelphia. 



Col. Sylvanus Thayer, U. S. Engineers. 



Francis Wayland, D. D., of Brown University. 



Henry Baldwin, of Pennsylvania. 



William II. Prescott, of Boston. 



