PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol.IL FEBRUARY, 1841. No. 16. 



Stated Meeting, February 5. 



Present, forty-two members. 



Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read from the Rev. Dr. Dorr, and from Wil- 

 liam Rawle, Esq., acknowledging the honour done them by 

 their election to membership, — from the Secretary of the Phi- 

 losophical Society of Cambridge, England, dated 19 Nov. 1840, 

 acknowledging the receipt of the Transactions, Vol. III. and Vol. 

 VII. Part 1, — from the Secretary of the Geological Society of 

 London, dated 5 Nov. and 19 Nov., 1840, acknowledging the 

 receipt of the Society's Proceedings, Vol. I. Nos. 11 and 12, 

 and of the Transactions, Vol. VII. Part 1. 



The following donations were received: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Eloges Historiques d'Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, de R. L. Desfon- 

 taines, de J. Jul. de Labillardiere, et de F. Cuvier; par M. Flou- 

 rens, Secretaire perpetuel &c. — From the Author. 



Discourse on the Objects and Importance of the National Institution 

 for the Promotion of Science, established at Washington, 1840, de- 

 livered at the first anniversary; by Joel R. Poinsett, Secretary 

 of War, and Senior Director of the Institution. — From the Insti- 

 tution. 



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

 Cogswell, February, 1841. Vol. XIII, No. 3.— From Mr. Cogs- 

 well. 



