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Erechinus chloroticus, New Zealand. Presented by C. F. 



Parker. 



Fossils. A large collection of tertiary fossils, of St. Domingo, 



comprising 1340 specimens of mollusks, and 86 specimens of 23 

 species of corals. Presented by William M. Gabb. 



Several collections of fossils from the marl pits near Vincenttowh, 

 Pemberton, Ayrestown, and Glassboro, New Jersey, comprising a 

 multitude of specimens of vertebra?, and teeth of sharks of the 

 genera Lamna, Otodus, Carcharodon, Oxyrhina, and Galeocerdo ; 

 also teeth of Pristis, Myliobatis, and Enchodus ; the snouts of 

 Histiophorus and Coelorrhynchus ; in addition, fragments of 

 turtle shells, of Mosasaurus and other saurian bones, dermal 

 plates, bones and teeth of crocodiles, etc. Specimens also of 

 Belemnites, Ammonites, Ostrea, several gastropods, Spatangus, 

 etc. Presented by Col. T. M. Bryan. There were likewise pre- 

 sented by the same gentleman, some fossil fishes, mollusks, and 

 plants, from Colorado. 



A small collection of shark teeth and a cetacean rib, from 

 Ashley R., S. C. Presented by S. T. Abert, through Col. Bryan. 

 A collection of seventy-five fossils, from the vicinity of Lexing- 

 ton, Scott Co., Md., was presented by Dr. W. D. Hutchings. 



A collection of forty-four fossils, from California, was presented 

 by Sarah P. Monks. 



A collection of teeth and vertebras of sharks, from Ashley R., 

 S. C, and a collection of post-pliocene fossils, from the coast of 

 Cuba, were presented by Mr. John Ford. 



Other small collections and single specimens of fossils were 

 presented by Dr. S. C. De Besy, W. W. Jefferis, J. B. Dillingham, 

 Alfred G. Baker, John M. Hartman, Joseph P. Hazard, C. J. 

 Hardekopf, Joseph Krall and Dr. F. L. Gault. 



From the Otago Museum, Dunedin, N. Z., there was received 

 a collection of bones of Dinornis, in exchange. 



From the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, there was 

 also received, in exchange, a collection of casts in plaster, of verte- 

 brate fossils. 



Plants. One hundred and eight3'-nine species of plants, collected 

 in the Sierra Nevada, California, by Lemmon, were presented by 

 Messrs. John II. Redfield, John S. Haines, and Thomas Meehan. 



A collection of Parry's plants of Wyoming and of Southern 

 Utah of 18T3-74 was presented by Wm. H. Dougherty. 



