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In this case, an abnormous state of the ossicles and other irregu- 

 larities were found in one car; and destruction of the membrana 

 tympani and disorganization of the soft parts of the tympanum, &c, 

 in the other. 



Staled Meeting, February 18. 



Present, thirty-two members. 



Mr. Duponceau, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Lyell, of London, a recently elected member, was pre- 

 sented to the President and signed the Laws. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Royal Society of Gottingen, dated 18th August, 

 1S41, acknowledging the receipt of copies of the Transactions 

 and Proceedings of this Society, and notifying it of the trans- 

 mission of the eighth volume of the " Commentationes Socie- 

 tatis Regise Scientiarum Gottingensis Recentiores:" — 



From the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, inviting the 

 members of this Society to be present at the delivery of a dis- 

 course by Job R. Tyson, Esq., before the former Society, on 

 the evening of the 21st instant: — and 



From Mr. Adam Ramage, offering to put the Franklin Press 

 in order at his own expense, in order that the members might 

 have an opportunity of pulling a sheet on it. 



The invitation of the Historical Society was accepted, and 

 the letter of Mr. Ramage referred to a committee, with power 

 to take order. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



A Monograph of the Limniades, or Fresh-water Univalve Shells of 

 North America. By S. S. Haldeman. No. 4. 8vo. Philadel- 

 phia, 1842. — From the Author. 



An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States 

 for the Year 1840. Prepared in the Office of the Register of the 



