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fessor Silliman and B. Silliman, Jun. Vol. XLI. No. 2. Oct. 

 1841. — From the Editors. 

 The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. By Isaac Hays, 



M.D., &c Oct. 1841.— From the Editor. 

 The American Medical Library and Intelligencer. By Robley Dun- 



glison, M.D., &c. N. S. Vol. I. No. 3.— From the Editor. 

 Academical Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures and Antiquities. By 

 John Gorham Palfrey, D.D. 2 Vols. 8vo. Boston, 1838, 1840. 

 From the Author. 



Dr. Bache, from the Committee, consisting of the Secretaries, 

 to whom were referred on the 26th of June, 1840, the commu- 

 nications of Mr. Du Ponceau and Mr. Fisher, relating to the 

 early history of the Society, presented a report, which was 

 read. At the request of the President, who was absent in con- 

 sequence of indisposition, the consideration of this report was 

 postponed till the next meeting. 



The Committee, consisting of Mr. Kane, Mr. Breck, and 

 Judge Hopkinson, to whom was referred a letter from Mr. 

 John B. Murray to Mr. Vaughan, which was read at the last 

 meeting, made report. 



Mr. Murray's letter communicates a proposal from some gentlemen, 

 members of the Printer's Pension Society of London, to present to 

 this Society a printing press at which Dr. Franklin worked while in 

 England, provided a pecuniary gift or endowment be made in return 

 to the Printer's Pension Society, and the Philosophical Society engage 

 that the press shall be accessible to the public. 



The Committee express their sense of the liberal exertions of Mr. 

 Murray to promote the interests of the Society, but for reasons which 

 they detail, recommend that the proposal communicated in his letter 

 be declined. 



The Society concurred in the recommendation, and de- 

 clined Mr. Murray's proposal. 



Dr. Harlan presented a communication entitled, " Descrip- 

 tion of the Bones of a nondescript fossil Animal, of the order 

 Edentata, allied to the Megatherium, Megalonyx, Clamypho- 

 rus, Orycteropus, &c. &c, by R. Harlan, M.D.;" which was 

 read and referred to a committee. 



Dr. Hays made some additional remarks on the new variety 



