PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. II. JULY, AUG. SEPT. & OCT. 1841. No. 19. 



Stated Meeting, July 16. 



Present, thirty-one members. 



Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received and read: — 



From Dr. Robert Christison, of Edinburgh, dated June 4, 

 1841, and from Prof. Edward Hitchcock, of Amherst, dated 

 July 10, 1841, making acknowledgments for the honour of 

 their election as members: — 



From V. Cousin, Minister of Public Instruction of France, 

 dated Paris, 23d October, 1840, announcing the transmission 

 to the Society of a copy of the Archives du Museum d'Histoire 

 Naturelle: — 



From M. Paris, President of the Royal Society of Antiqua- 

 ries of France, dated Paris, 15th Jan. 1841, transmitting Vol. 

 XV. of the Memoirs of that Society : — 



From W. A. Graham, Secretary of the Society of Arts, &c. 

 Adelphi, London, dated 14th June, 1841, acknowledging the 

 receipt of Vol. VII. Part 2, of the Transactions, and Nos. 14, 

 15 & 16, of the Proceedings of the Society: — 



From Frederick de Peyster, Corresponding Secretary of the 

 New York Historical Society, dated 6th July, 1841, transmit- 

 ting the first Volume of its Collections, N. S.: — 



From Mr. George Folsom, dated 7th July, 1841, relating to 

 certain publications of this Society, which are deficient in the 

 library of the New York Historical Society: — 



From Mr. W. W. Griffin, dated Elizabeth City, N. C. 11th 



