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Brief Extract from Memoranda of the Earl ofDundonald, on the use, 
properties, and products of the Bitumen and Petroleum of 
Trinidad. London, 1857. Folio. — From Lord Dundonald . 
The U. S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemi- 
sphere during the years 1849-50, 1851-52. Vol.vi.,Magnetical 
and Meteorological Observations, under the direction of Lieut. 
J. M. Gilliss, LL.D., Superintendent. Washington, 1856. 
4to. — From Dr G-illiss . 
The following List of Donations, announced at the Society’s 
Meeting on 2d March 1857, was omitted in its proper place 
in the Proceedings : — 
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Yoh 
cxliv., Part 2, cxlv., and cxlvi. London, 1854-56. 4to.— 
From the Society. 
Proceedings of the Boyal Society, Vol. viii., No. 24. — From the 
Society. 
Annales de l’Observatoire Physique Central de Russie. No. 2. 
Correspondance Meteorologique pour i’anne 1854. St Peters- 
bourg, 1855. 4to. — From the Observatory. 
Journal of Agriculture, and Transactions of the Highland and Agri- 
cultural Society of Scotland. March 1857- Edinburgh. 
8 vo. — From the Society. 
The American Journal of Science and Arts. January 1857. 
8 vo. — From the Editors . 
Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Quatrieme serie, Tome xii. 
1857. 8vo. — From the Society. 
Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. Vol. iv., Part 
4. — From the Society. 
Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij 
der Wetenscliappen te Haarlem. Deel xii., tweede verza- 
meling. — From the Society. 
On certain Trains of Erratic Rocks on the Western borders of 
Massachusetts, U.S. By Sir Charles Lyell, F.R.S. 8vo. — 
From the Author. 
