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written communications. 



Dr. Zantzinger presented a tabular statement of Meteoro- 

 gical observations, for the year 1S41 : which was referred to 

 Messrs. Goddard, Lukens, and Johnson. 



Dr. Hallowell read a paper intended for publication, enti- 

 tled, " Description of a new genus of Serpents from Western 

 Africa," to which he has given the name of Distichurus, 

 founding it on a single species, D. maculatus. described in 

 the paper. Referred to Messrs. McMurtrie, Morton, and 

 Haldeman. 



BUSINESS BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION. 



Mr. Phillips offered the following, which was adopted : 

 Resolved, That the Corresponding and Recording Secre- 

 taries be, ex-officio, members of the Committee on Proceed- 

 ings. 



Dr. Morton having stated that his valuable collection of 

 Crania, contained in a lower room of the building, had sus- 

 tained some injury from the dampness of the apartment, and 

 that it would be necessary to remove them, a resolution was 

 adopted by the Society, authorising him to have cases erected 

 in the North flying-gallery of the Hall, for the purpose of ac- 

 commodating the collection, the expense of the same to be 

 defrayed in pari by the Society. 



STATED MEETING, April 12th, 1S42. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



A specimen of Zygaena tiburo from the coast of Florida. 

 Presented by Dr. Win, Blanding. 



