328 [Dec. 1847. 



A treatise on the management of Bees. By Thomas Wild- 



mann. 8vo. London, 1778. 

 Harper's Family Library. No. LXI. The History of Nubia 



and Abyssinia, by the Rev. Michael Russel. 12mo. New 



York, 1836. 



Dr. Dickeson exhibited an Indian axe, of large size, which 

 had been found in New Jersey. 



The Publication Committee announced that the first num- 

 ber of the New Series of the Journal of the Academy was 

 published, and ready for distribution to subscribers. 



Stated Meeting, Dec, 14, 1847. 



Mr. Vaux in the Chair. 



Mr. Cassin read a paper, describing " Two species of Buce- 

 ros, probably new, with a notice of the Buceros elatus, 

 Temm. ;" which was referred to a committee composed of 

 Dr. Wilson, Mr. Harris, and Mr. Gambel. 



Dr. Leidy made some observations upon fossil remains of the 

 horse in America, in connection with a memoir on the subject, 

 read by him some time previously, and published in the last num- 

 ber of the Proceedings. He stated that in the 35th vol. of Silli- 

 man's Journal, p. 201, is an extract from a letter from W. M. 

 Carpenter to Benj. Silliman, describing a fossil horse tooth found 

 in Louisiana, associated with Mastodon, &c, which, from the 

 figures and measurements accompanying the description, he re- 

 ferred to his species Equus Americanus. He further remarked 

 that Mr. T. A. Conrad had informed him that Mr. T. Nuttall had 

 found teeth of this same species on the Neuse river, N. C. Dr. 

 L. also exhibited a fragment of a superior molar of the left side, 

 from the collection of Dr. Dickeson, which, from the greater deli- 

 cacy and degree of folding of the enamel upon the crown, (see 

 fig. 6 in the plate,) he thinks probably belonged to a third 

 American species. The depth of the central enamel folds is pre- 

 served in the fragment, and is 2 inches, 3 lines. 



Dr. McEuen exhibited specimens of clarified ginseng 

 root, (Panax quinquefolium,) which had been perforated by 

 an insect ; and desired information on the subject. 



