PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. I. MAY, JUNE & JULY, 1840. No. 12. 



Stated Meeting, May 1. 

 Present, twenty-one members. 

 Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 

 The following donations were received: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, publiees par les Profes- 



seurs-Administrateurs de cet Etablissement. Tom. I. 4to. Paris, 



1839. — From the Professors. 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, edited by the Acting Secre- 

 taries, and circulated gratis to the Members of the Society. Nos. 



88 and 89, for April and May, 1839.— From the Society. 

 Report of the Committee of Physics and Meteorology of the Royal 



Society, relative to the Observations to be made in the Antarctic 



Expedition, and in the Magnetic Observatories. 8vo. London, 



1840. — From the Royal Society. 

 Fifty-third Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the 



State of New York, made to the Legislature, March 2, 1840. 



8vo. Albany, 1840. — From the Regents. 

 Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York. Vol. 



IV. In Three Parts. 8vo. Albany, 1838-9-40.— From the 



Society. 

 C. Cornelii Taciti quae extant, Marcus Zuerius Boxhornius recensuit, 



et Animadversionibus illustravit, &c. &c 24mo. Amstelodam. 



1664. — From Mr. Du Ponceau. 

 Joannis Seldeni Mare clausum, seu de Dominio Maris, Libri duo. 



24mo. Londins. 1636. — From the same. 

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