Arausr, 1842.] 208 



principal specie dci Sopracretacei dell' Italia. Par Gio- 

 vanni Michelotti. Vicenza, 1841. 4to. From the Author. 

 Description des Canccllaires Fossiles des Terraines Tertiaires 

 du Piomont. Par Louis Bellardi. Turin, 1841. From 

 the Author. 



Annales des Mines. Tome XX. 5me. liv. de 1841. From 

 the Society. 



Ilistoire Naturelle, ke. de l'llo de Cuba. Par M. Ramond 

 <le la Sagra. Liv. 32, 33, 34, 35, 3G and 37. Presented by 

 J. Price Wetherill, J. S. Phillips, S. G. Morton, A. L. El- 

 wyn, W. S. Vaux, Jos. A. Clay, and Geo. C. Leib. 



WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. 



The Chairman read a letter from M. Jean Michelotti, 

 dated Turin, March 24, 1842, accompanying the donation of 

 his works. 



Also a letter from M. Louis Bellardi, dated March 25. 

 1842, in reference to the presentation of his work. 



And a note from Peter A. Browne, Esq., introductory to 

 his Catalogue of West Indian Plants, &c. 



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Dr. Merlon laid on the taide the remains of a human skeleton found by Mr. 

 J. li Stephens in a vauli or tomb at the ruins near Ticul, nineteen leagues from 

 Merida, in Yucatan. Dr. M. remarked that these bones have pertained to a 

 female, whose stature has not exceeded five feet three inches, at the same time 

 ih;it the absence of epiphyses and consequent consolidation of the bones ar< 

 proof- of adult a'.*e. From the appearance of the teeth, however, which art 

 fresh, and not sensibly worn, and a line or furrow marking off the crista of the 

 ilium, it is pies Um ed that this individual had not passed her twentieth year. 

 The bones of the head, which are still partially separable at the sutures, are 

 admirably characteristic of the American Race, as seen in the vertical occiput 

 and the 'jreat inter-parietal diameter, which measures five inches and ei^ht- 

 tenths. The head is of full size, in proportion to the rest of the skeleton, ol 

 which the bones are of very delicate proportions, especially those of the fee; 

 and hands. An interesting feature of this skeleton is, the occurrence of a 

 large spongy node on the upper and inner surface of the left tibia, on which 

 it extends about two inches in length, one inch in breadth, and halt an inch 

 in thicki ess. Dr. Bridges having subjected some fragments of these bone- 



