2S6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



screen, and well-illustrating the chambered arrangement of the 

 shell. 



Plants. Mr. Thomas Meehan presented two hundred species 

 of plants, from Colorado, and the fruit of Larix leptolejiis, of 

 Japan. Dr. George Englemann, of St. Louis, presented seven 

 species of Lemna, from the vicinity of Mexico. Mr. John B. King 

 presented a small collection of Cuban mosses. Dr. Leidy pre- 

 sented a collection of plants from "Wyoming. Several specimens 

 were presented by C. W. Zuremba and T. H. Streets. 



Ilinerals. The following specimens were presented: 



Realgar and euchroite, from Hungary; fluor, Hartz; erythrite, 

 Saxon}'; calcite, Cornwall, E.; willemite, jeffersonite, and two 

 calamines, Franklin, N. J.; Allanite, Orange Co.; and three brown 

 tourmalines, St. Lawrence County, X. Y. ; cuprite, Cornwall, E., 

 from Clarence S. Bement. 



A fine large apophyllite with stilbite, from Poonah, Hindostan, 

 from Win. S. Vaux. 



A fine large amethyst with fluor, from Thunder Bay, L. S., from 

 E. W. Clark" 



Phlogopite, scapolite, hornblende, New York ; cummingtonite 

 and zoisite, Ducktown, Polk County, Tenn.; massive chrysolite, 

 and corundum, Franklin, Macon County, N. C, from Joseph 

 Willcox. 



A fine large crystallized jeffersonite, from Franklin, N. J., from 

 Joseph Willcox and S. B. Howell. 



Zincite, Franklin, and hornblende, Andover, N. J., from S. B. 

 Howell. 



Group of muscovite crystals, from Chester Count}', from I. Lea. 

 Corundum with talcose schist, from L T nionville, Chester County, 

 from George Ball. Stilbite, from Frankford, from John Bartlet. 

 Floatstone, from Oregon, from E. Goldsmith. Two cannel coals, 

 from West Virginia, from B. S. Lyman. 



By purchase and exchange there were also obtained ruby and 

 sapphire corundum, from Macon County, N. C; corundum with 

 chlorite, crystallized red copper, and bournonite. 



The Curators regret to state, that during the past year several 

 valuable minerals have been stolen from the Museum. It ma} 7 be 

 added that in consequence of the present great extent of the latter, 

 and the want of proper labelling and numbering, with a catalogue 

 of the collections, we are unable in many instances, to discover 



