PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. II. MAY & JUNE, 1841. No. 18. 



Stated Meeting, May 7. 



Present, twenty-seven members. 



Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Isaac R. Jackson, and Professor Roswell Park, mem- 

 bers elect, were introduced, and signed the Laws. 



Letters were received, and read : — 



From the Perpetual Secretary of the Royal Academy of 

 Inscriptions, &c, Institute of France, dated 16th Nov. 1840, 

 and 15th Feb. 1841, acknowledging the receipt of Vol. VII. 

 Part 1, of the Transactions, and of No. 13, of the Proceedings 

 of the Society. 



From M. Felix Lajard, Provisional Secretary of the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences, Institute of France, dated 8th Dec. 1840, 

 accompanying Vol. XIV. Part 2, of its Memoirs, and commu- 

 nicating information relative to the course of the Academy's 

 publications, its public sittings, the prizes it distributes, &c. 

 The Provisional Secretary announces the purpose of the Aca- 

 demy to transmit its weekly reports, proces verbaux, &c, 

 with renewed regularity to the Society, and invites a closer 

 correspondence, and more frequent interchanges between the 

 two Institutions.* 



From Count J. Graberg de Hemso, to the Librarian, dated 

 Florence, 26th Nov. 1840, and 4th Jan. 1841, and to one of the 



* The programme of prizes, &c, referred to in M. Lajard's letter as accom- 

 panying it, and to which the Society was requested to give publicity, did not 

 arrive. 



