PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 



OF PHILADELPHIA.. 

 Vol. III. MARCH AND APRIL, 1846. No. 2. 



Stated Meeting, March 3, 1846. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 



Nos. 2 and 3, for 1843. From the Society. 

 Verhandlingen der Kaiserlich-Russischen Mineralogischen 



Gesellschaft zu St. Petersburg. 2 vols. 1843 and 1844. 



From the Society. 

 A Memoir of James De Veaux, of Charleston, S. C. By 



Robert W. Gibbes, M. D., of Columbia, S. C. 8vo. From 



the Author. 



Dr. Morton presented a paper by Dr. Robert W. Gibbes, of 

 Columbia, S. C, " On the fossil Squalidae of the Eocene of 

 the Southern States," which was read and referred to a 

 committee consisting of Mr. Phillips, Dr. Morton and Dr. 

 Hallowell. 



A paper by Mr. Edward Harris, " On the difference of 

 level between the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and those of 



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