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The places of the stars are the apparent places for the time of comparison 

 with the comet. 



Prof. Bache also reported the following occultations of fixed stars 

 by the Moon, observed by Prof. Riimker in Hamburg. 



1840. 



Star. 



Phase. 



MeanT 



me at Hamburg. 



April 11 



v Leonis 



Immers. 



10 



34 58.29 



22 



t Sagittarii 



Immers. 



16 



13 20.77 



May 4 



Anon. 



Immers. 



10 



30 16.97 



June 3 



« Cancri 



Immers. 



9 



48 30.98 



Aug. 24 



) * Cancri 

 5 * Cancri 



Immers. 

 Immers. 



16 

 16 



13 35.8 

 16 7.9 



Stated Meeting, December 4. 

 Present, thirty members. 

 Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 

 The following donations were received: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



A History of the United States before the Revolution; with some Ac- 

 count of the Aborigines. By Ezekiel Sandford. 8vo. Philadel- 

 phia, 1819. — From Mr. Du Ponceau. 



The Resources of the United States of America ; or a View of the 

 Agricultural, Commercial, Manufacturing, Financial, Political, 

 Literary, Moral, and Religious Capacity and Character of the 

 American People. By John Bristed, Counsellor at Law, &c. 

 &c. 8vo. New York, 1818. — From the same. 



History of the late Polish Revolution, and the Events of the Cam- 

 paign. By Joseph Hordynski, Major of the late 10th Regiment 

 of Lithuanian Lancers. 8vo. Boston, 1832. — From the same. 



Memoirs of Goethe, written by himself. 8vo. New York, 1824. — 

 From the same. 



The History of the Administration of John Adams, Esq., late Presi- 

 dent of the United States. By John Wood, Author of the His- 

 tory of Switzerland, &c. 8vo. New York. — From the same. 



