PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. II. NOVEMBER & DECEMBER, 1842. No. 24. 



Stated Meeting, Nov. 5. 



Present, twenty-seven members. 



Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From Mr. Clark Hare, acknowledging the honour done him 

 by his election as a member of the Society: — 



From M. Quetelet, Secretary of the Royal Academy of Sci- 

 ences of Brussels, dated 7th May, 1842, acknowledging the re- 

 ceipt of copies of the Transactions and Proceedings of the So- 

 ciety: — and 



' From Mr. C. N. Bancker, transmitting to the Society, three 

 works of Mr. George Field, of Isleworth, England, as a dona- 

 tion to the Library. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Reply to Dr. Hare's further Objections relating to Whirlwind 



Storms, &c. By W. C. Redfield. 8vo. New Haven, 1842.— 



From the Author. 

 Nouveaux Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles- 



Lettres de Bruxelles. Vol. XV. 4to. Brussels, 1842. — From 



the Academy. 

 Annales de PObservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, publiees, aux Frais de 



l'Etat, par le Directeur, A. Quetelet. Vol. II. 4to. Brussels, 



1842. — From the same. 

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