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which it was obtained was killed by Dr. E. K. Kane, of Philadelphia, Surgeon 

 to the late American Arctic Expedition, and presented by hinn to the Academy. 



Fine skin of the Rocky Mountain Sheep, Ovis montana. Presented by the 

 Smithsonian Institution, throujih Prof. Baird. 



Forty specimens of Tertiary Fossils, from California. From Dr. J. L. 

 LeConte. 



Native Cinnabar, from California. From the same. 



October \Ath. 



Fruit of Lycthis grand iflora, from Matanzas, and Serpentine from New Jersey. 

 From Mr. D. M. Schellinger, through Dr. Watson. 



Magnetic Oxide of Iron, from the West shore of Lake Champlain. Presented 

 by Mr. Isaac liCa. 



Mass of Glass, containing numerous radiated crystals of Silicate of Lime. 

 From Dr. J, C. Fisher. 



Asphaltum from New Brunswick, Cuba, and Trinidad Lake. From Mr. Richard 

 C. Taylor. 



October 21*^. 



Two vertebrae and a jaw-fragment of a fossil Cetacean; two vertebrae and two 

 teeth of a fossil Saurian; ten teeth of fossil Sharks ; two specimens of fossil 

 Pecten, and tube of a large fossil Annelide. From Westmoreland county, Vii- 

 ginia. Presented by Mr. Robert H. Nash. 



Mounted specimen of Mustela Vison. From Mr. Wm. Wood. 



Mounted specimen of Cricetus vulgaris, from Germany; and Fiber Zibethicus, 

 from Pennsylvania. Presented by Dr. J. C. Fisher. 



Geophilus ? from Brazil ; and Scarabaeus tityus, from S. Carolina. 



From Dr. J. H. Rand. 



D ON AT I ONS TO LI B R ARY 



In September and October, 1851. 



Sejiiembcr 2d. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. 4, pp. 1 32. 

 From the Society. 



Supreme Court, Halifax, N. S. Abraham Gesner vs. Halifax Gas-light Co. 

 Deposition of Richard C.Taylor respecting the Asphaltum Mine at Hillsborough. 

 From Mr. Taylor. 



Report on the Agricultural capabilities of the Province of New Brunswick. 

 By J. E. W. Johnston. 2d ed. From the same. 



Annual Address, by Mr. Justice Carter, before the Frederikton Athenaeum, 

 Feb., 1850. From the same. 



Annual Address before the same, by the Rev. J. M. Brooke, Feb., 1851. From 

 the same. 



Dr. Wilson presented the following, on the usual condition : 



Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte ; Herausg. von Dr. F. H. Troschel. No. 6, 1848, 

 No. 6, 1849, No. 1, 1851. 



Zeitschrift fiir Malakozoologie von H. T. Menke, M. D., und Dr. L. Pfeiffer, 

 No. 11, 1850. 



Revue et Magasin de Zoologie. Par M. Guerin-Meneville. Nos. 5 et 6, de 

 1851. 



The London Athenaeum, July, 1851. 



Comptes rendus. Tome 32, Nos. 2026 ; Tome 33, No. 1 ; et index du 

 tome 31. 



Illustrations Conchyliologiques. Par M. Chenu. Livs 82, 83, folio. 



