PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. 3. JAN., AND FEB., 1847. No. 7. 



Stated Meeting, January 5, 1847. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Casts of the hand of Troglodytes niger, (Chimpanzee), and 

 of the inferior extremity of the radius of a fossil mammal 

 obtained near Richmond, Va. From Dr. J. Wyman. 



Sternum of Oidemia perspicillata. From Mr. Woodhouse. 



Specimens in skin, of Putorius noveboracensis, from Bucks 

 Co., Pa. ; Sorex brevicaudatus, Say, and Vespertilio caro- 

 linensis, Geof., from Chester Co., Pa. ; and V. novebora- 

 censis, L., from Newark, Del. From Dr. T. B. Wilson. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Annales des Mines. 4 me - Serie, Tome viii. Livs. 5 and 6 de 

 1845. In exchange. 



Twenty-sixth Report of the Council of the Leeds Philosophi- 

 cal Society. Leeds : 1846. Fom the Society. 



Message of the President of the United States, communicating 

 a Report of an Expedition by Lieut. Abert to the Upper 

 Arkansas, and through the country of the Camanche In 

 dians, in the autumn of 1845. From Col. Abert. 



