PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol.1. SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER, 1839. No. 8. 



Stated Meeting, September 20. 

 Present, twenty-eight members. 

 Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 

 The following donations were received: — 



for the library. 



Me moires couronnes par l'Academie Roy ale des Sciences et Belles 



Lettres de Bruxelles. Vol. XIV. Part I. Brussels, 1838 



From the Academy. 



Nouveaux Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles 

 Lettres de Bruxelles. Vol. XI. Brussels, 1838. — From the 

 same. 



Annuaire de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de 

 Bruxelles. Cinquieme Annee. Brussels, 1839. — From the 

 same. 



Bulletin de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de Brux- 

 elles. Nos. 9 to 12. Brussels, 1838. — From the same. 



Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the 

 year 1838. Two parts. London, 1838. — From the Society. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Nos. 32 to 36 inclu- 

 sive, and No. 38.— From the same. 



List of the Council, Scientific Committees, Fellows, and Foreign 

 Members, of the Royal Society of London, 1839. — From the 

 same. 



Astronomical Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Green- 

 wich, in the year 1837. London, 1838. — From the same. 



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