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mencing on the 4th of January, in concert with the Magnetic 

 Observatories at Philadelphia, Washington and Toronto. 



Mr. Du Ponceau remarked, that the Indian MS. found on 

 the coast of Labrador, of a part of which lie presented a fac 

 simile at the last meeting, is in a dialect of the Algonquin or 

 Ohippeway language. He thought it desirable that the Philo- 

 sophical and Literary Society of Quebec should publish the 

 whole, with the French translation, in their Transactions. 



Mr. Du Ponceau directed the attention of the Society, espe- 

 cially of those devoted to the study of Natural Science, to the 

 Eulogiums of the younger Jussieu, Desfontaines, Labillardiere, 

 and the younger Cuvier, by M. Flourcns, presented to the 

 Society this evening. 



Mr. Du Ponceau entered at some length into the organization and 

 internal arrangements of the French Institute, and of some other 

 learned Societies of Paris, established since the beginning of the pre- 

 sent century, called free societies, (societes libres,) such as the 

 Asiatic, Geographical, Antiquarian, Statistical, &c, with most of 

 which this Society is in correspondence. 



Professor Bache deposited in the Society's archives, as a doc- 

 ument connected with its history, the original engagement of 

 the Society, in the year 1787, under its official seal and the sig- 

 natures of the Vice Presidents and Secretaries, to repay to Dr. 

 Franklin the then President such sums of money as he should 

 advance, in addition to his several donations, for completing 

 the Hall of the Society, agreeably to an offer which he had 

 made. 



The Library Committee, to whom was referred a letter 

 from M. de Candolle, proposing to exchange the work now 

 publishing at Geneva by the Society of Natural History, &c, 

 for the Transactions of this Society, reported in favour of the 

 proposed exchange; and the Committee was thereupon in- 

 structed to carry it into effect. 



Dr. Hays, from the Committee of Publication, reported that 

 the 2d Part of Vol. VII. of the Society's Transactions, is now 

 ready for distribution. 



Mr. Kane, Reporter, presented copies of the Proceedings of 

 the Society, Vol. II. No. 15, for January, 1841. 



