PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. 1. APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY & AUG. 1839. No. 7- 



Slated Meeting, April 5. 

 Present, nineteen members. 

 Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 

 The following donations were received: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Diccionario de la Lengua Castellana por la Academia Espanola. 

 Eighth edition. Madrid, 1837. — From the Academy. 



Derrotero de las Islas Antillas de las Costas de Tierra-Firme, y de 

 las del Seno Mejicano. Third edition. Madrid, 1837. — From 

 the Hydrographical Depot of the Spanish Navy. 



Coleccion do los Viages y Descubrimientos que hicieron por mar 

 los Espanoles desde fines del Siglo xv. Por Don Martin Fer- 

 nandez de Navarrete. Vols. I., II., III., IV., & V. Madrid, 

 1825 to 1837. — From the same. 



Discurso leido a la Academia de la Historia, por su Director el 

 Excmo Selior D. Martin Fernandez de Navarrete, en Junta de 

 24 de Noviembre, de 1837. Madrid, 1838.— From the Author. 



Essays on unexplained Phenomena. By Graham Hutchinson. 

 Glasgow, 1838. — From the Author. 



Observations on the Justificative Memorial of the Court of London. 

 Translated from the French original, by Peter S. Du Ponceau. 

 Philadelphia, 1781. — From the Translator. 



An Alphabetical Catalogue of Shells, Fossils, Minerals, and Zoophites, 

 in the Cabinet of Joseph Sullivant. Columbus, Ohio, 1838,— 

 From Mr. Sullivant. 



