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dins, Secretaire et 1'un des Membres Fondateurs de cette Societe, 

 &c. &c. 4to. Port-Louis, He Maurice, 1836. — From the same. 



Liste des Membres qui component la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de 

 l'lle Maurice, ler September, 1836. — From the same. 



Huitieme Rapport Annuel sur les Travaux de la Societe d'Histoire 

 Naturelle de l'lle Maurice, lu a la Seance Anniversaire du Jeudi, 

 24 A out, 1837, par M. Julien Desjardins, &c. &c. 8vo. Mau- 

 rice, 1837. — From the same. 



Proceedings of the Numismatic Society of London, 1837-8, contain- 

 ing the Address of the President, Dr. Lee. 8vo. London, 1838. 

 From Dr. Lee. 



Sir James Clark's Statement of the Case of the late Lady Flora Has- 

 tings, &c. &c. — From Dr. Dunglison. 



The Works of Benjamin Franklin ; containing several Political and 

 Historical Tracts not included in any former edition, and many 

 Letters, Official and Private, not hitherto published ; with Notes, 

 and a Life of the Author. By Jared Sparks. Vols. 1, 8, 9, and 

 10, which complete the Work. Royal 8vo. Boston, 1839-40. — 

 From Mr. Sparks. 



The Orderly Book of the American Army, under the immediate 

 Command of Cen. Washington at Valley Forge. MS. — From Col. 

 Hugh Mercer, of Fredericksburg, Va., through Dr. Mease. 



Mr. Vaughan, on presenting a transfer of page 524 of 

 Schaaf's Syriac Lexicon (Leyden edition, 1717), &c, by Mr. 

 Joseph Dixon, of Taunton, Massachusetts, on the plan of the 

 transfer process of Mr. Dixon's invention, read sundry extracts 

 of letters from him on the subject. 



A notice of this invention was first published in the Salem Gazette, 

 by the editor of that paper, on the 25th day of May, 1832; but the 

 inventor has not yet made the process public. 



The Committee, consisting of Mr. Walker, Dr. Patterson, 

 and Mr. Bache, to whom was referred a paper, entitled "Ob- 

 servations on Nebula?, with a Fourteen Feet Reflector, by H. 

 L. Smith and E. P. Mason, during the year 1839, by E. P. 

 Mason," reported in favour of publication in the Society's 

 Transactions, which was directed accordingly. 



The object of Messrs. Smith and Mason was to furnish a minute 

 description of some of the principal nebula? in the heavens, in order 



