Jan., 1847.] 143 



A selection of the Birds of Brazil and Mexico. The draw- 

 ings by William Swainson, Esq. 1 vol. 8vo. London : 

 1841. 



Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte von Brazilien. Von Maxi- 

 milian Prinzen zu Wied. Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia, 5 vols. 

 8vo. 



Descriptiones Animalium quse in itinere ad Maris Australis 

 terras per annos 1772, 1*773 and 1774 suscepto : collegil, 

 observavit et deliniavit Joannes Reinoldus Forster, F.R.S. ; 

 nunc demum edita? auctoritate et impensis Academise Lit- 

 terarum Regise Berolinoe, curante Henrico Lichtenstein. 

 1 vol. 8vo. Berlin : 1844. 



Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds. By Col. G. Mon- 

 tague, F. L. S. 2d edition : by James Rennie, F. L. S. 

 8vo. London : 1831. 



Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales ; with sixty-five 

 plates of nondescript Animals, Birds, and other natural 

 productions. By John White, Esq., Surgeon to the Settle- 

 ment. 1 vol. 4to. London : 1790. 



Letters were read : 



From Richard Brown, Esq., addressed to the Correspond- 

 ing Secretary, dated Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, Dec. 9th, 

 1846, acknowledging the receipt of his notice of election as a 

 Correspondent. 



The following extract from this letter is interesting: 



" I have visited Cranberry Head several times recently, and 

 have made a section and drawings of the fossil trees there. The 

 first tree near the Point is based upon a small seam of coal : lately 

 a large piece of the cliff has fallen down, and part of the tree 

 with some of the coal under it. Fortunately it has exposed two 

 loDg roots one branching to the North and the other to the 

 South about seven feet each way. They are very broad and 

 flat, and are genuine Stigmaria. I could not trace any rootlets, 

 but the areolae are not to be mistaken. I have preserved some 

 large pieces, as also some of the bark, of the tree, which is appa- 

 rently an irregularly fluted Sigillaria. 



In a bed of Shale, some twenty feet lower in the section, I have 

 also found several small upright trees, about eight inches diarne- 



