6 [April. 1841. 



STATED MEETING, April 6. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Twenty-eight geological specimens and organic remains 

 from Little Rock, Arkansas From Dr. Engelman, of St. 

 Louis. 



A fine specimen of Red pipe stone from Coteau de Prairie, 

 Sioux county. From J. N. Nicollet, Esq. 



Ten specimens of Minerals from Leiperville, Delaware 

 county, Pennsylvania. From Mr. L. W. Williams. 



Masonite, (new mineral) from Natic Valley, Rhode Island. 

 New red sandstone, with Gypsum, Tobique river, New 

 Brunswick. Chlorophyllite, (new mineral) Unity, New 

 Hampshire. Copper Pyrites and Tremolite, from a copper 

 mine at Warner, New Hampshire. Tertiary fossil shells, 

 from Westbrook, Maine, viz. : Astarte castanea, Saxicava 

 distorta, Nuclea Portlandica, Nuclea Jacksonii, (Gould) : 

 and a fossil tooth from the tertiary clay of Gardiner, 

 Maine. Presented by Dr. Chas. T. Jackson. 



A specimen of the Mason Spider, with its nests ; from the 

 south of France. Presented by Jas. Saul, Esq. of New 

 Orleans. 



donations to library. 



A Second Memoir on the Laws of Storms in India. By Henry 



Piddington, Calcutta, 1840. From the Author. 

 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 



VIII. Part II. (New Series.) From the Society. 

 Voyage de F. Hornemann dans 1' Afrique Septentrionale, Svo, 



Paris, ISO 3. From the late Wm. Maclure, Esq. ' 

 Ornithologie du Gard, et des Pays circonvoisins, par J. 



Crespon, Svo. Nismes, 1S40. From James Saul, Esq. 

 A Discourse on the Natural History of the Plants called 



Graminese by W. Darlington, M. D. From the Author. 

 Third Annual Report of the Geology of Maine, 1837, by Dr. 



Chas. T. Jackson. From the Author. 



