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posterior extremity of the animal, I indistinctly observed 

 what I presumed to be the generative orifice. 



By permission of the Society, a report was received from 

 the Committee on Dr. R. W. Gibbes' memoir, entitled " On 

 the fossil genus Zeuglodon, Owen, with an account of speci- 

 mens from the Eocene green sand of South Corolina," recom- 

 mending the same for publication in the forthcoming number 

 of the Journal of the Academy. The report was adopted. 



Meeting for Business, June 29, 1847. 



Mr. Phillips in the Chair. 



The Committee, to whom was referred Prof. Hare's paper 

 entitled " Objections to the electrical theories of Franklin, 

 Du Faye, and Ampere, with some suggestions as a substitute," 

 reported in favour of publication in the Journal of the 

 Academy. The report was adopted. 



The Committee on Mr. Peter A. Browne's paper, proposing 

 a new nomenclature for the class Mammalia, reported that 

 the views taken by the author, although novel and ingenious, 

 did not, in their opinion, justify the substitution of the names 

 proposed for those in use, and established by Cuvier and 

 others. The Committee also requested that a copy of the 

 paper might be deposited in the Library of the Academy. 

 The report was adopted. 



The Committee on a paper by Lieut. J. W. Abert, U. S. A., 

 describing a supposed new species of Quail inhabiting 

 New Mexico, reported the same to be the Ortyx squamata, 

 Vigors ; and recommended for publication the following por- 

 tion of the communication. 



" This bird appears to be well known throughout the whole de- 

 partment of New Mexico, for a sketch that I had made of it was 

 universally recognized by the inhabitants of that country, who 

 called it " La Codorniz." I met with several coveys on the 

 banks of the " Rio del Norte," opposite to Socorro," but I had 

 not the good fortune to obtain any specimens until Nov. 12th, 



