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One Squilla ; one scorpion ; four Coleoptera ; one Lepidoptera ; five Orthop- 

 tera, one hemiptera, from Trinidad. Presented by Dr. Samuel Lewis. 



Trigonocephalus contortrix. From J. C. Hughes, Pottsville. 



Ten specimens coal plants, Carbondale, Pa. Presented by Henry Drinker, 

 Esq., of Montrose, through Mr. Vaux. 



Numerous nodules of carbonate of iron, with a species of Goniatite as a nu- 

 cleus, and one specimen of calcareous earth, from Salt Sulphur Springs, Vir- 

 ginia. Presented by N. Harrison, Esq., through Mr. J. Lambert. 



Five species shells, from Simoda ; col lection of plants, from Japan ; four birds' 

 heads, fromLoochoo; one Medusa. Presented by Dr. Jos. Wilson, U. S. N. 



Fruit of Cyamus, from Kansas. From Dr. Carson. 



Over 1,500 specimens of Coleoptera, from various parts of Italy, many of 

 which are new to the collection of the Academy ; 190 bird skins from ditto. 

 Presented by Mr. Guex. 



Two bottles of Mexican Coleoptera. Presented by the Smithsonian Insti 

 tute, through Dr. Le Conte. 



November 13*A. 



Fifry-seven specimens of two species serpents j'thirty specimens of four species 

 frogs; three specimens Emys Muhlenbergii. From the vicinity of Philadelphia. 

 Presented by Drs. Hallowell and Leidy. 



Two crystals of Mica. Presented by Jacob Peirce. 



One Echinus, from Valparaiso. Presented by Dr. Ru<chenberger. 



Six specimens of four species Turtles, from' Georgia. Presented by Jos. 

 Jones, Esq. 



November 20tk. 



Bernicla Hutchinsii, three specimens ; Anser albifrons, adu'.t and young. Pre- 

 sented by J. D. Sergeant, Esq. 



Two specimens of Mus rattus, from Brooklyn,jL .T. From Mr. John Ash- 

 hurst. 



Tubular sand-stone, (ferruginous) from Cumberland Co., N. J. Presented 

 by Mr. F. B. Gillette. 



December Ath. 



A collection of Coleoptera, comprising eight hundred specimens of six hun- 

 dred and fifty species, from Russia, Siberia, Caucasus, Sitka, East Indies, 

 and Australia. Presented by Mr. Guex. 



Lygosoma lateralis, Crotalus miliarius, (remarkable for the number of its 

 rattles), Simotes cocneus, Rana clamator, and a Salamandra. From Georgia. 

 Presented by Maj. Le Conte. 



Coluber punctatus ; a Salamandra; two small fishes from Lake Superior; 

 and Herpetodryas aestivus, from New Jersey. Presented by Dr. Coleman. 



Numerous specimens of Tropidonotus sipedon, Rana palustris, R. halecina, 



Rana , n. s., Astacus Bartoni, (unusually large), Tropidonotus ordinatus, 



a Sorex, and several fishes. From the vicinity of Philadelphia. Presented 

 by Drs. Hallowell and Leidy. 



December \Sth. 



Fossils from the Coal Measures, carboniferous Limestone, Devonian and Si- 

 lurian Systems of Great Britain and Ireland of the following genera : Cala- 

 mites, Lepidodendron, Manon, Aulopora, ^Catenipora, Cyathophyllum, Cysti- 

 phyllum, Favosites, Graptolithus, Lithodendron, Columnaria, Millepora, Turbi- 

 nolia, Turbiuolopsis, Porites, Retepora,Strombodes, Syringopora, Verticillipora, 

 Actinocrinus, Cyathocrinus, Platycrinus, Poteriocrinus, Rhodocrinus, Serpu- 

 lites, Asaphus, Calymene, Agnostus, Pdchyodon, Cypricardia, Modiola, Sangui- 

 nolaria, Avicula, Atrypa, Calceola, Leptaena, Orbicula, Orthis, Pentamerus, 

 Productus, Spirifer, Terebratula, Lingula, Euomphalus, Nerita, Buccinum, 

 Pleurotomaria, Rotella, Terebra, Turbo, Turritella, Bellerophon, Cyrtoceras, 



