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Dr. Bache announced the decease of Baron Larrey, a mem- 

 ber of this Society, on the 24th of July, 1842, aged seventy-six. 



On motion of Dr. Patterson, Mr. Kuhn was appointed on the 

 Committee of Finance, to fill the vacancy caused by the death 

 of Mr. Nicklin. 



Stated Meeting, October 7. 



Present, twenty-nine members. 



Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From Mr. Petty Vaughan, dated London, 2d Sept. 1842, ac- 

 knowledging the honour done him by his election as a mem- 

 ber of this Society: — 



From the Zoological Society of London, dated 2d July, 

 1842, and the Linnean Society of London, dated 18th July, 

 1842, severally acknowledging the reception of copies of the 

 Transactions and Proceedings of this Society: — 



From the Society of Antiquaries of London, dated 21st June, 

 1S42, announcing the transmission of the twenty-ninth volume 

 of the Archseologia: — 



From Major Graham, dated Washington, 28th August, 1842, 

 presenting a series of maps and charts, illustrating the demar- 

 cation of a portion of the boundary between the United States 

 and Texas, and a chart of the entrance of the river Sabine: — 



From Mr. William Cogswell, Corresponding Secretary of 

 the Northern Academy of Arts and Sciences, of Hanover, N. H. 

 dated 18th Dec. 1841, requesting the donation of the publica- 

 tions of this Society: — and 



From Colonel Todd, American minister at St. Petersburg, 

 dated 13th April, 1842, enclosing a letter received by him from 

 his Excellency Count Cancrine, Minister of Finances of Rus- 

 sia, placing at Colonel Todd's disposal, two copies of Kupffer's 

 work on weights and measures, one of which he presents to 

 this Society. 



On motion, the Society directed that a copy of the Proceed- 



