

[Auu, 1842. 



STATED MEETING, August 9, 1842. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Sixty-four Species of Plants from the Andes, collected and 

 presented by J. Frampton Watson, Esq. 



Portions of a Human Skeleton, discovered and brought from 

 the Ruins of San Francisco, near Ticol, nineteen leagues 

 from Merida, Yucatan, by Mr. J. L. Stephens, and deposited 

 in the Academy by Dr. Morton. 

 Bones of the Raccoon, Doer, Bat, and a single vertebra of a 

 minute Fish, from a Cave on the Condogwinit, near Car- 

 lisle, Pennsylvania. From Dr. Win. T. Craige. 



A Specimen, in spirits, of [Jranoscopus , from the 



mouth of Great Egg Elarbor Ltivcr. From Mr. Ashmead. 

 The Botanical Committee announced the reception of Mr. 

 Browne's collection of West Indian Plants, Fruits, &c, ac- 

 companied by a Catalogue, in which the name of each spe- 

 cies is given under the head of the natural family to which 

 it belongs, with short statements of its localities, peculiarities 

 ind uses. 



The whole collection contains of dried plants oOO species; 

 of fruits, seed vessels, and seeds, about ">."> varieties; and of 

 woods, To varieties; some of which latter are polished. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Saggio Storico dei Rizopodi Caratteristici dci Terreni Sopra- 

 cretacei. Par Giovanni Michelotti. Modena, 1841. From 

 the Author. 



Monografia del genere Murex, ossia cnumerazione dellc 



