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Bulletin de la Societe de Geographic. Deuxieme Serie, Vol. X* 



Paris, 1838. — From the Society. 

 The Oxford University Calendar. Oxford, 1838.— From- Mr. John 



Vaughan. 

 The Cambridge University Calendar. Cambridge, 1838. — From the 



same. 

 Memorie e Lettere di Galileo Galilei, dal Cav. Giambatista Venturis 



Vols. I. and II. Modena, 1821. — From the same. 

 An Inquiry into the Origin of the Antiquities of America. By John 



Delafield, Jr., with an Appendix, by James Lakey, M. D. of 



Ohio. New York, 1839 From Mr. M. T. Williams. 



The librarian was authorized to take order in relation to an 

 exchange of the transactions of the Society, for the Journal of 

 the Boston Natural Historical Society. 



The committee on the letters of Mr. J. P. Hulliken and Dr. 

 Townsend reported, and was discharged. 



The committee to whom was referred the publication of cer- 

 tain meteorological tables, accidentally omitted in their place in 

 the Transactions, and the journal of Dr. Thomas Hewson, re- 

 ported in favour of the publication of certain of the former and 

 of the latter. 



Dr. Bache presented a translation of an obituary notice of 

 Professor Rask of Copenhagen, late a member of the Society, 

 to be deposited in the archives of the Society. 



Mr. Vaughan informed the Society of the decease of Doctor 

 Thomas Cooper, a member of the Society, who died on the 

 eleventh of May last. 



Dr. Hays communicated verbally the case of a woman la- 

 bouring under an affection of the optic nerve, in which a defect 

 in the recognition of colours was developed, according to her 

 statement, at the same time with the affection of the general 

 vision, and in which a partial recovery of the power of vision 

 had been attended with the recovery of the power to distin- 

 guish colours. 



Dr. Hare laid before the Society portions of barium, stron- 

 tium and calcium, and stated the considerations which led him 

 to attempt their extrication, and the means by which he had 



