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May 1, 1841, acknowledging the receipt of the Transactions 

 and Proceedings of the Society: — 



From the President of Harvard University, dated Cam- 

 bridge, Sept. 7, 1S41, thanking the Society for the work of 

 Admiral Schisckow, presented by it in the name of the Impe- 

 rial Academy of St. Petersburg to the University Library. 



The following donations were announced: — 



TO THE LIBRARY. 



Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Naturvidenskabelige 



og Mathematiske Afhandlinger. Ottende Deel. Copenhagen, 



1841. 4to. — From the Royal Society of Denmarlc. 

 Oversigt over det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs For- 



hancl linger og dets Medlemmers Arbeider, i. a. 1839, 1840. 



4to. — From the same. 

 Censura Commentationum Societati Regiae Danicse Scientiarum a. 



1840 oblatarum, et Novse Questiones quas in a. 1842 Societas 



cum praemii promisso proponit. — From the same. 

 Proceedings of the Meteorological Society of London, during the Ses- 

 sions 1838-39 and 1839-40.— From the Society. 

 Royal Astronomical Society of London. Proceedings. Vol. V. No. 



16. June, 1841. — From the Society. 

 Proceedings of the Geological Society of London. Vol. III. Part II. 



No. 76. 1841. — From the Society. 

 Botanical Society of London. Regulations, &c. 1841. — From the 



Society. 

 Royal Geographical Society of London. Address of George Bellas 



Greenough, F.R.S. &c, President. 24th May, 1841.— From 



the Society. 

 Academie Royale de Bruxelles. Extrait du Tom. VI. No. 10, des 



Bulletins. Note sur la Temperature de l'Eau de Puits, par W. H. 



White, &c. — From the Author. 

 On the Theories of the Weather Prophets, &c. By W. H. White, 



Secretary of the Meteorological Society of London, &c. — From 



the same. 

 Report, by Mr. O'SulIivan, to the Legislature of the State of New 



York, on the subject of Capital Punishment, 14th April, 1841. — 



From the Author. 

 The American Journal of Science and the Arts. Conducted bv Pro- 



