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Stated Meeting, May 19. 



Present, thirty-two members. 

 Dr. Chapman, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received and read : — 



From Lieut. Col. W. Reid, C.B., F.R.S., Governor of Ber- 

 muda, dated 24th April, 1S43, acknowledging the honour of 

 his election to membership: — 



From the Corporation of Harvard University, dated 10th 

 May, 1843, — the Connecticut Historical Society, dated Hart- 

 ford, 9th May, 1843, — and the Secretary of the Linnean Soci- 

 ety, dated London, 3d Feb. 1843, — acknowledging the receipt 

 of recent numbers of the Transactions and Proceedings of this 

 Society: — 



From Longman, Brown & Co., dated London, 2d April, 

 1843, in reference to a work on Ornithology by George Gray, 

 about to be published by them: — and 



From Mr. J. B. Parker and his attorney, in reference to the 

 sale of the Museum buildings. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For 

 1842. Part II. London, 1842. 4to. — From the Society. 



List of the Royal Society of London, 30th Nov. 1842. 4to.— From 

 the name. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society, Nos. 54, 55, 1842. 8vo. — From 

 the same. 



Revised Instructions for the Use of the Magnetic and Meteorological 

 Observatories, and for the Magnetic Surveys; prepared by the 

 Committee of Physics and Meteorology of the Royal Society. 

 London, 1842. 8vo. — From the same. 



Tables for the Extemporaneous Application of Corrections for Tem- 

 perature to Barometric Observations ; deduced from the Tables 

 published in the Report of the Committee of Physics of the R. S. 

 By S. Elliott Hoskins, M.D. Guernsey, 1842. 8vo.— From the 

 same. 



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

 No. 28. Feb. 1843. 8vo From the Society. 



