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Dr. Patterson, from the Committee appointed in relation to 

 the buildings of the Society, made a further report of progress; 

 and on his motion, additional powers were conferred on the 

 Committee. 



Stated Meeting, October 1. 



Present, twenty-nine members. 



Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received and read — 



From the Royal Geographical Society of London, dated 

 May 12, and July 12, 1841, — the Zoological Society of Lon- 

 don, dated August 20, and November 7, 1840, and January 

 13, May 19, and July 9, 1841, — the Horticultural Society of 

 London, dated July 20, 1841, — and the Linnean Society of 

 London, dated August 12, 1841; announcing the transmission 

 of donations to the Library, and acknowledging the receipt of 

 the Transactions and Proceedings of the Society: — 



From Dr. H. J. Bowditch, of Boston, dated Sept. 14, 1841, 

 accompanying a Report of the Bowditch Library, and acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of the Transactions and Proceedings: — 



From Col. J. R. Jackson, dated London, July 19, 1841, 

 transmitting through Mr. Du Ponceau to the Society his work, 

 entitled, "What to Observe:"— 



From Mr. Joseph E. Bloomfield, dated New York, Septem- 

 ber 26, 1841, relative to a deposit made by him with the So- 

 ciety, of two silver goblets and a cestus, taken by one of Pizar- 

 ro's soldiers from the Temple of the Sun, in Peru: — 



From the Chief Engineer U. S. A., Col. Totten, dated Wash- 

 ington, September 17, 1841, accompanying a donation to the 

 Library; and from Mr. John B. Murray, dated Liverpool, Au- 

 gust 28, 1841, offering to the Society, on certain conditions, a 

 printing press at which Dr. Franklin worked when in Eng- 

 land. This letter was referred to a committee. 



