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Stated Meeting, April 2. 



Present, twenty-three members. 



Judge Hopkinson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read — 



From M. Guizot, dated Paris, Dec. 14, 1840; from Mr. John 

 L. Stephens, dated New York, March 13, 1841: and from M. 

 Pierre de Angelis, dated Buenos Ayres, Jan. 8, 1841, acknow- 

 ledging the honour done them by their election as members of 

 the Society: — 



From the Secretary of the Geological Society of London, 

 dated Jan. 7, 1841; from the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society, dated Jan. 2, 1841; from the Secretary of the Royal 

 Geographical Society of London, dated Nov. 21, 1840; and 

 from the Secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons, in Lon- 

 don, dated Feb. 5, 1841, severally acknowledging the receipt 

 of donations from this Society. 



The following donations were received: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Astronomical Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Edin- 

 burgh, for the Year 1837. By Thomas Henderson, F.R.S., 

 &c. Edinb. 1840. 4to. — From the Royal Society of Lon- 

 don. 



Annuaire Magnetique et Meteorologique du Corps des Ingenieurs des 

 Mines de Russie, &c. &c. Annee, 1838. St. Petersburg, 1840. 

 4to. — From the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg. 



Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. N. S. No. 18. 1840. 

 8vo. — From the Society. 



Proceedings of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. V. Nos. 10 

 and 11. Dec. 1840, Jan. 1841. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. I. No. 3. 

 March, 1841. 8vo. — From the Institute. 



The American Quarterly Register, conducted by B. B. Edwards and 

 W. Cogswell. Vol. XIII. No. 3. Feb. 1841. 8vo.— From 

 the Editors. 



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