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dated 2d Oct. 1842, severally acknowledging the receipt of 

 copies of the Society's Transactions and Proceedings. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



The Literary Age. Vol. I. Nos. 1 & 2. Edited by Reynell Coates, 

 M.D. 4to. Philadelphia, 1842.— From the Editor. 



Inventory of Philosophical Instruments, Experimental Apparatus, 

 Models, Books, and all other Property, placed under the Control 

 of the Building Committee of the Girard College for Orphans. 

 8vo. Philadelphia, 1842. — From the Building Committee of 

 Girard College. 



A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye. By W. Lawrence, F.R.S. 

 &c. &c. From the last London Edition. With Numerous Ad- 

 ditions, and sixty-seven Illustrations. By Isaac Hays, M.D. 8vo. 

 Philadelphia, 1843.— From the Editor. 



M. Accii Plauti Amphitruo et Aulularia. Ex Editione J. F. Gronovii. 

 Accedunt Notre Anglicse. Cura C. K. Dillavvay, A. M. 12mo. 

 Philadelphia, 1842. — From the Editor. 



An Attempt to unite the different Theories concerning Light, Elec- 

 tricity, Galvanism and Magnetism. By C. Campbell Cooper. 

 Part I. Identity of Caloric and Electricity. 12mo. Philadel- 

 phia, 1842. — From the Author. 



Mr. Clark Hare and Mr. George Bancroft, recently elected 



members, were presented to the presiding officer, and took 



their seats. 



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Dr. S. G. Morton read the first part of a paper, " On the 

 Form of the Head, and other Ethnographic Characters of the 

 Ancient Egyptians," which was referred to a Committee. 



In this paper, Dr. Morton first took a view of those nations with 

 whom the Egyptians appear to have held intercourse, either for war 

 or commerce, in the early epochs of their history ; and among those 

 whom he has been able to identify, from a comparison of the 

 heads figured in the work of Rosellini, are the Celts, the Scythians, the 

 Pelasgic and Semitic nations, the Hindoos, Arabs and Negroes. Dr. 

 M's ethnographic observations have been made on one hundred 

 crania of ancient Egyptians, obtained by Mr. G. R. Gliddon at 

 seven different sepulchral localities, from Memphis, in Lower Egypt, 

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