The. following donations were received: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Annual Discourse delivered before the Ohio Historical and Philoso- 

 phical Society, at Columbus, December 23, 1837. By Timothy 

 Walker. Cincinnati, 1838. — From the Author. 



Address delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha of 

 Maine. By J. R. Ingersoll. Brunswick, Me., 1837. — From the 

 Author. 



Logic, or the Art of Reasoning simplified. By S. E. Parker. Pub- 

 lished by Robert Davis. Philadelphia, 1837. — From the Pub- 

 lisher. 



Essay on the Veterinary Art, giving an Account of the Veterinary 

 Colleges of France and England, &c. By P. A. Browne. Phila- 

 delphia, 1837. — From the Author. 



Researches on the Cheiroptera of the United States. By William 

 Cooper. New York, 1837. — From the Author. 



FOR THE CABINET. 



Neptune's punch bowl (Gigantia Alcyonia), from Singapore. — From 

 Captain Story, through Messrs. Eyre dp Massey. 



Two specimens of a new mineral from the neighbourhood of Char- 

 lotte, N. C, proposed by Mr. Featherstonhaugh to be called 

 leopardalite. — From Mr. Franklin Peale. 



A specimen of augite in steatite, from Oxford, N. H. — From Dr. 

 James Mease. 



Mr. Lea read a paper in continuation of his Memoir on fresh 

 water and land shells, which was referred. 



Stated Meeting, January 19. 

 Present, thirty-two members. 

 Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 

 The following donations were received : — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



The Philadelphia Practice of Midwifery. By Charles D. Meigs, M. D. 

 Philadelphia, 1838. — From the Author. 



