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On the Library. — Dr. Hays, Mr. Campbell, and Mr. Pen- 



ington. 



Agreeably to the laws, the list of surviving members was 

 read; by which it appeared that the number of members, at 

 the beginning of the year was 329; namely, 228 resident in 

 the United States, and 101 in foreign countries. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the So- 

 ciety: — 



Alexis de Tocqueville, of Paris. 



Baron de Roenne, of Prussia. 



John F. Frazer, of Philadelphia. 



E. Otis Kendall, of Philadelphia. 



Charles Lyell, of London. 



J. N. Nicollet, of Washington. 



Baron de la Doucette, of Paris. 



E. W. Brayley, of London. 



Stated Meeting, February 4. 



Present, thirty-one members. 



Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 



Professors Frazer and Kendall, members elect, were pre- 

 sented to the President and signed the Laws. 



Letters were read, — 



From Baron Roenne, dated 29th January, 1S42, — from Mr. 

 Charles Lyell, dated 5th Feb. 1S42,— and from Mr. J. N. Ni- 

 collet, dated 1st Feb. 1842, severally acknowledging the honour 

 of their election as members of the Society: — 



From the Geological Society of London, dated 21st Oct. 

 1841,— the Society of Arts of London, dated 27th Nov. 1841, 

 and from the Royal Asiatic Society of London, dated 6th 

 Nov. 1841, severally acknowledging the receipt of copies of 

 the Society's Transactions: — 



From Dr. Tidy man, of Charleston, dated 10th Jan. 1842, 

 transmitting four volumes of the Statutes of South Carolina, 

 as a donation: — and 



