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Stated Meeting, February 21. 

 Present, twenty -two members. 

 Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 

 The following donations were received: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Vol. 

 VIII. P. I. 8vo. Philad. 1839.— From the Academy of Nat. 

 Sciences. 



The American Medical Library and Intelligencer, a concentrated 

 Record of Medical Science and Literature. By Robley Dunglison, 

 M. D., Sec. A. P. S., &c. &c. Vol. III. Nos. 21 & 22. Feb. 

 1 & 15, 1840. Philadelphia. — From the Editor. 



The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. No. L. Feb. 1840. 

 Philadelphia. Edited by Dr. Hays. — From the Editor. 



Two Letters on the Chinese System of Writing. By the Rev. Charles 

 Gutzlaff, Missionary at Canton, and Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D., 

 President of the American Philosophical Society. Extracted from 

 the 7th Vol. (New Series) of the Society's Transactions. 4to. 

 Philadelphia, 1840. — From Mr. Du Ponceau. 



A Condensed Geography and History of the Western States, or the 

 Mississippi Valley. By Timothy Flint, Author of Recollections 

 of the Last Ten Years in the Mississippi Valley. 2 vols. 8vo. 

 Cincinnati, 1828. — From Mr. Vaughan. 



Democracy in America. By Alexis de Tocqueville, Avocat a la Cour 

 Royale de Paris, &c. &c. Translated by Henry Reeve, Esq. 

 With an Original Preface and Notes. By John C. Spencer, Coun- 

 sellor at Law. 8vo. New York, 1838. — From the same. 



The Speeches of Henry Clay, delivered in the Congress of the United 

 States ; to which is prefixed, a Biographical Memoir ; with an Ap- 

 pendix, containing his Speeches at Lexington and Lewisburg, and 

 before the Colonization Society at Washington : together with his 

 Address to his Constituents on the Subject of the late Presidential 

 Election: with a Portrait. Philadelphia, 1827. — From the same. 



Travels in the Central Portions of the Mississippi Valley : comprising 

 Observations on its Mineral Geography, Internal Resources, and 



