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Description of a new species of Salamander. By Lewis 11. 



Gibbes, of Charleston, S. C. (From the Boston Journal 



of Nat. Hist., Vol. 5. No. 1.) From the author. 

 Twelfth, 13th, and 14th Memoirs with reference to the law 



of Storms in India. By Henry Piddington. From the 



author. 

 Commentary on the Hindu System of Medicine. By T. A. 



Wise, M. D. 8vo. Calcutta, 1845. From H. Piddington, 



Esq. 

 Iconographie Ornithologique : publie par 0. Des Murs. Livs. 



1 8. 4to. Presented by Mr. Edward Wilson, of Wales. 

 Manuscript Geological Chart (coloured,) of the Silurian rock 



formations of North America. By Richard C. Taylor, 



F. G. S. From Mr. Tavlor. 



Dr. Leidy read a paper accompanied by drawings, of two 

 new species of Planaria, which was referred to the following 

 Committee : Dr. Griffith, Mr. Haldeman, and Dr. Pickering. 



Dr. Leidy, stated in reference to the specimen of Squatina 

 Dumerili, presented this evening, that it was a rare species. A 

 description of it was first given by Mr. Leseuer in Vol. 1 of 

 the Journal of this Society. His description is taken from three 

 specimens, all males, each of which had six or seven distinct 

 rows of teeth, 25 teeth in each row. The specimen on the 

 table is a female, is four feet long, and has ten distinct rows of 

 teeth, counting from before backwards, and five teeth in each 

 row, in the lower jaw ; and nine rows with the same number 

 in each row, in the upper jaw. The intestinal canal is very 

 simple, and has but one convolution in its course. The oesopha- 

 gus is capacious and undefined from the stomach : both are 

 strongly muscular. 



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