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Dr. Hodge was relieved from the duty of preparing a notice 

 of the life and character of Dr. Dewees. 



Stated Meeting, March 3. 

 Present, twenty-eight members. 



Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Geological Society of London, dated 5th January, 

 1843, — the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, dated 15th 

 August, 1842, — the Society of Arts, &c. dated London, 7th Nov. 

 1S42, — acknowledging the receipt of the Transactions and 

 Proceedings, and announcing the transmission of donations to 

 the Library: — 



From R. R. Gurley, Esq., dated Washington, 22d February, 

 1843, declaring his purpose to transmit to the Society the 

 numbers of the African Repository, as they shall be published: 



And from Col. Hugh Mercer, dated Fredericksburg, 18th 

 Feb. 1843, stating that he had forwarded to the Society certain 

 valuable papers, illustrative of the public career of his father, 

 General Mercer. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States, 

 for the Year 1841. 8vo. 1843. — From the Register of the 

 Treasury, U. S. 



Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenchaften zu Ber- 

 lin, aus dem Jahre, 1840. 4to. Berlin, 1842. — From the Royal 

 Academy of Berlin. 



Bericht iiber die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen 

 der Konigl. Acad, zu Berlin, 1841-1842. 8vo. — From the 

 same. 



Proceedings of the Royal Astronomical Society of London. Vol. V. 

 Nos. 25, 26. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Industrie Francaise, Rapport sur l'exposition de 1839, par J. B. A. 

 M. Jobard. 2 Vols. 8vo. Brussels and Paris, 1841, 1842.— 

 From the Author. 



