INDEX TO VOLUME III. 



Abadie, Dr., don. to mus., 10. 

 Abert, Col., don. to lib., 141. 

 Abert, Lieut., don. to mus., 210. 

 Academy of Sciences of Munich, don. 



to lib. of memoirs of, 78, 2(30. 

 Adams, C. B., don. to lib., 9, 117, 196; 



don. to mus., 213. 

 Agassiz, M., don. to lib., 117. 

 Alger, Francis, don. to lib., 38. 

 American Philosophical Society, don. 



of proceedings of, 89, 119, 218 

 American Acad, of Arts and Sciences 



of Boston, don. of memoirs of, 98, 



142, 190, 196, 270. 

 American Journal of Agriculture and 



Science, don. of by editors, 38, 50, 



184, 220, 240, 256, 309, 329. 

 Annales des Mines, 68, 141. 

 Ashmead, Samuel, don. to lib., 316; 



don. to mus., 329. 



Bachman, Rev. Dr., communication 



from, 184. 

 Baker, Capt. H. F.,don. to mus., 303. 

 Balfour, Dr. E., don. to lib., 269. 

 Barratt, Dr. Joseph, don. to lib., 98. 

 Beasley, Thomas, don. to mus., 193. 

 Bell, John, don. to mus., 193. 

 Blanding, Dr. Wm., don. to lib., 37, 



70, 208. 

 Bonaparte, Chas. L., don. to lib., 232. 

 Bossange, Edward, don. to lib., 261. 

 Boston Society of Natural History, 



don. of proceedings of, 50, 68, 89, 



187, 237; of journal, 194. 

 Boudin, Dr., of Paris, don. to lib., 14. 

 Bridges, Dr. R., don. to lib., 275. 

 British Association, don. to lib., 98. 

 Bronn, Prof., don. to mus., 271. 

 Browne, Peter A., don. to lib., 218, 



304; don. to mus., 303. 

 Burmeister, Heermann, don. to lib., 



327. 

 By-laws, amendments to, 128, 252. 



Calcutta Journal of Natural History, 

 don. of by editors, 231. 



Cassin, John, don. to mus., 12, 239 ; 

 on an instinct probably possessed 

 by the Herons, (Ardea, L.,) 137, 

 description of a new rapacious bird 

 in the Museum of Acad, of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, 199 ; de- 

 scription of a new Buceros, and a 

 notice of the Buceros elatus,Temm., 

 330 ; descriptions of three new spe- 

 cies of the genus Icterus, Briss., 332. 



Churchman, John, don. to mus., 30. 



Cincinnati Horticultural Society, don. 

 to lib., 89. 



Cincinnati Society of Pennsylvania, 

 don. to lib., 237. 



Committees, Scientific, for 1846, 13; 

 for 1847, 1 14. 



Committee to inquire into the con- 

 dition of the bequest of the late 

 Wm. Warder, Esq., to the Acad., 

 195. 



Committee to examine into the expe- 

 diency of converting the lecture 

 room into a portion of the museum, 

 252. 



Committee to confer with M. Vatte- 

 mare on the subject of exchanges, 

 274. 



Committee on Mr. Conrad's descrip- 

 tions of new fossil and recent 

 shells of the United States, 10 ; on 

 a paper by Mr. Phillips, describing 

 new fresh water shells, 12; on Dr. 

 R. W. Gibbes' paper on the fossil 

 Squalida; of the Eocen of the U. S., 

 29; on Mr. E. Harris' paper on the 

 difference of level between the 

 waters of the Gulf of Mexico and 

 those of the Atlantic Ocean, 30 ; on 

 Prof. Locke's notice of a new As- 

 terias from the blue limestone of 

 Cincinnati, 30; on Mr. Gambol's 



