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Stated Meeting, June 8, 1847. 

 Dr. McEuen in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Several specimens of copper ore from the Flemington Copper 



Mine, N. J. From Dr. McEuen. 

 A collection of bird skins, reptiles, &c, from the Island of 



Jamaica. From Dr. C. \V. Pennock. 

 A portrait of the late distinguished Botanist, A. P. De Can- 



dolle. Received through Prof. Asa Gray. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Memoirs de la Societe de Physique et d' Histoire Naturelle 



de Geneve. Tome x., pt. 2. Tome xi., pt. 1. From the 



Society. 

 Troisieme Supplement au Memoire sur les Coquilles terrestres 



et fluviatiles de la Province de Bahia. Par D. J. Mori- 



cand. From the author. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from Prof. C. B. 

 Adams, dated Boston, May 22d, 1847, accompanying the 

 donation of shells announced at last meeting, and proposing 

 to the Society, for publication in its Journal, a Memoir on the 

 Natural History of the Island of Jamaica, of which he was 

 the author. 



The letter was, on motion, referred to the Publication Com- 

 mittee. 



A letter was read from Dr. Frederick Tamnau, of Berlin, 

 dated March 22d, 1847, making enquiry relative to a box of 

 minerals which he had transmitted to the Academy at a for- 

 mer period, and asking an equivalent for the same ; which 

 was accordingly ordered by resolution of the Society. 



Dr. Leidy called the attention of the Society to a cranium 

 of a NeAv Hollander, in which the remains of sutures of the 

 incisive bone could be distinctly traced. 



Mr. Edward Harris exhibited specimens of Amorpha 



