192 March, 1847. 



Professor Johnson exhibited some fine specimens of the 

 bark of a Sigillaria, converted into coal, obtained from the 

 coal fields of Nova Scotia. 



Stated Meeting, March 23d, 1847. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Micaceous Oxide of Iron, from Nova Scotia. From Dr. 



Hallowell. 

 Lepidodendron elegans, Asterophyllites equisitiformis, and 



Calamites connseformis ; from Sydney, Cape Breton. From 



Prof. Johnson. 



A letter was read from Thomas C. Eyton, Esq., dated 

 Wellington, Shropshire, England, Feb. 18, 1847, presenting 

 a case of insects, and asking for certain exchanges with the 

 Academy. Referred to the Zoological Committee. 



A communication from the Secretary of the American 

 Philosophical Society was read, acknowledging the receipt 

 of late numbers of the Proceedings. 



A paper by Peter A. Browne, Esq., proposing a new no- 

 menclature for the Class Mammalia was read and referred 

 to Dr. Leidy, Mr. Haldeman, and Dr. Hallowell. 



[ Meeting for Business, March 30, 1847. 



Mr. Phillips in the Chair. 



Dr. Leidy announced the recent decease of Dr. Amos 

 Binney, of Boston, late a Correspondent of the Academy, and 

 offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously 

 adopted. 



