PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. II. APRIL & MAY, 1843. No. 26. 



Stated Meeting, April 7. 



Present, thirty-five members. 



Mr. Du Ponceau, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received and read: — 



From the General, Chef d > Etat Major of the Engineers of 

 Mines of Russia, dated St. Petersburg, July, 1842, announcing 

 the transmission of donations to the Society, by the order of 

 Count Cancrine, Minister of Finances, &c. &c. : — 



From the Secretary of the Royal Society of Sciences of Got- 

 tingen, dated 5th December, 1843, acknowledging the receipt 

 of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Society: — and 



From the Local Committee of the American Association of 

 Geologists and Naturalists; informing the Society of the ap- 

 proaching meeting of the Association at Albany. 



The following donations were announced: — 



TO THE LIBRARY. 



Annuaire Magnetique et Meteorologique du Corps des Ingenieurs des 

 Mines de Russie, ou Recueil d'Observations, &c, publiees par 

 ordre de S. M. I'Empereur Nicolas I. sous les auspices de M. le 

 Comte Cancrine, Chef du Corps, &c., par. A T. Kupffer : An- 

 nee 1840. St. Petersburg, 1842. 4to.— From H. E. Count 

 Cancrine, fyc. fyc. 



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

 No. 27. Jan. 1843. London. 8vo. — From the Society. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 Vol. I. Nos. 22, 23. Jan. Feb. 1843. 8vo.— From the Aca- 

 demy. 

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