March, 1841.] 5 



A memoir iof the Life and Character of the late Joseph Par- 

 rish, M. D., read before the Medical Society of Philadel- 

 phia, October 23, 1840, by George B. Wood, M. D. From 

 Dr. Morton. 



Reports of the Special Agent of the Lead Mines, relative to 

 the sale or future management of the Mineral Lands of the 

 United States. Printed by order of the 26th Congress. 

 Washington, January 23, 1831. From Dr. Morton. 



The First Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio, 

 by W. W. Mather. From the Author. 



Verbal Communications. Professor Johnson made some 

 remarks in relation to the specimens presented by Mr. J. F. 

 Watson this evening; and stated that Mr. Watson had count- 

 ed parts of forty skeletons of fossil whales, in the desert of 

 Atacama, two miles south of Los Lobos ; some of the ver- 

 tebrae being from twelve to eighteen inches in diameter. 



STATED MEETING, March 23. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Annual Report of the State" Geologist of Michigan, 1840, by 



Dr. D. Houghton. From the Author. 

 Discovery of Vauquelinite, a rare ore of Chromium, in the 



United States : also an account of some genera and species 



of North American Plants, by J. Torrey, M. D. From the 



Author. 



Elements of Conchology; or the natural history of Shells, 

 by Thos. Brown. From Dr. Morton. 



On the morbid anatomy of the mucous and serous mem- 

 branes, by Thomas Hodgkin, M. D., 8vo. London, 1840. 

 Vol. I. From the Author. 



Report of the survey and exploration of the Coal and Ore 

 lands of the Alleghany Coal Company, in Somerset county, 

 Pennsylvania, by W. R. Johnson, A. M. From the Author 



