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Professor Bache read a letter from Major Sabine, giving the 

 progress of the magnetic observations now making, and refer- 

 ring to the modes deemed advisable for the publication of the 

 records of observatories. He referred also to the anomalous 

 nature of the curves for the May term day at Toronto and at 

 Greenwich, and to an instrument for observing vertical force 

 by reflection, in the putting up of which Professor Airy was 

 engaged. 



Stated Meeting, December 18. 

 Present, thirty-eight members. 

 Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 

 The following donations were received: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Journal Asiatique. 3 Serie. Tom. IX. No. 49. Paris. Janvier, 



1840. — From the Society. 

 Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Gescbiedenis en Physiologie; uitgegeven 



door J. Van der Hoeven, M.D., Prof, te Leiden, en W. H. Vriese, 



M.D., Prof, te Amsterdam. Zevende Deel. lste en 2de Stuk. 8vo. 



Leiden, 1840. — From the Editors. 

 An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States, 



for the Year 1839. 8vo. Washington, 1840.— From Mr. T. 



L. Smith, Register of the Treasury. 

 A Commercial Dictionary, containing the Present State of Mercantile 



Law, Practice, and Custom. By Joshua Montefiore, &c. The 



first American Edition, with very considerable Additions relative 



to the Laws, Usages, and Practice of the United States. In three 



Volumes, 8vo. Philadelphia, 1804. — From Mr. Du Ponceau. 

 Sundry Pamphlets, Catalogues, &c, relating to the University of 



Pennsylvania. 8vo. (Bound.) — From the same. 

 Lettere sull' Indie Orientali. 8vo. Filadelfia, 1802. (2 Vols.) — 



From the same. 

 Des Crimes de la Presse, consideres comme Generateurs de tous les 



Autres. Dedie aux Souverains de la Sainte-Alliance. 8vo. 



Paris. (No date.) — From the same. 



