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receive from the Executors of the late Mrs. Stott the amount of her 

 legacy to this Institution, and to execute the necessary bonds on pay- 

 ment of the same. 



April 1st. 

 Vice President Bridges in the Chair. 



Dr. Morton read a letter addressed to him, from Dr. Alfred T. King, 

 dated Greensburg, Pa., March 17, 1851, on the subject of the anatomy 

 and functions of the brain in the inferior animals. 



Dr. Morton, referring to the crania deposited by him this evening, 

 stated that the cranium of the mummy recently dissected by Mr- Glid- 

 don was that of a female, and an Eg3'ptian in every respect. An at- 

 tempt had been made to preserve all the bones, but upon some of them 

 having been vi^etted, they were entirely converted into a clay-like 

 mass; the cranium had, however, escaped. One of the Tapajos In- 

 dian crania was curiously embalmed, in a manner peculiar to these 

 people, who place several together in jars : the eyes are singularly 

 represented, and the skull presents the peculiar roundness of the pos- 

 terior portion which is common to this race. The cranium of the 

 Guayacuru (a youns female) was interesting from the great rarity of 

 these crania. 



The following, offered by Dr. Elwyn, was adopted : 



Whereas, Mr. George Ord has kindly consented, at the request of 

 members of the Academy, to place at its disposal a portrait of himself 

 now in his possession : 



Resolved, That the Recording Secretary be directed to correspond 

 with Mr. Ord on the subject, and to signify to him the gratification it 

 would afford the Society to receive the portrait. 



April 8th. 

 Vice President Bridges in the Chair. 



Dr. Leidy exhibited three fragments of the inferior maxilla of a gigan- 

 tic species of Palreotherium, to which in the last number of the Pro- 

 ceedings he had given the name P. Proutii, in honor of Dr. Hiram A- 

 Prout, of St. Louis. By the latter gentleman they had been obligingly 

 lent to him through Prof. Baird of the Smithsonian Institute. One of 

 them had been described by Dr. Prout in Silliman's Journal, the others 

 had been since obtained. Two of the fragments apparently belonged to 

 the same individual, viz. : that described by Dr. Prout, being a portion of 

 the left ramus, containing the seventh molar tooth nearly entire and 

 the preceding teeth much mutilated ; and a part of the right ramus ex- 

 tending back to the angle containing three posterior molars mutilated. 

 They correspond closely in appearance, age, and size. The third frag- 

 ment is a much mutilated posterior molar of the right side, rather larger 

 than the corresponding tooth of the above specimens. The posterior 



