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STATED MEETING, October 18, 1842. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Voluta proboscidalis, V. Neptuni, (very large, and finely 

 preserved specimens;) and Murex saxatilis, from Liberia, 

 Africa. Presented by Mr. John Cassin. 



Two Specimens of Ampullaria depressa, from the Everglades 

 of Florida. Presented by Dr. Godon. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



The American Journal of Science and Arts. Vol. 43, No. 2, 

 for July, August and September, 1842. From the Editors. 



The Principles of Chemistry, printed for the use of Schools, 

 Academies, and Colleges. By Daniel B. Smith. 2d Edition. 

 Philadelphia, 1842. From the Author. 



Catalogus Coleopterorura in Siberia Orientali a eel. Gregorio 

 Silide Karelin collectorum. Auctore G. Fischer de Wald- 

 heim. From the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Mos- 

 cow. 



Index Plantarum anno 1840 a cell. Karelin et Kirilow in 

 Regionibus Altaicis et' confinibus collectarum, quas Soci- 

 etas Imperialis Naturae curiosorura Mosquensis pro mutua 

 commutatione offert. From the same. 



Bulletin de la Societe* Impdriale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 

 Annee, 1842. No. 2. Moscow, 1842. from the same. 



WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. 



The Chairman read a letter, duted Moscow, July 13th, 

 1842, from Dr. Renard, 2d Secretary of the Imperial Society 

 of Naturalists of Moscow, accompanying the above donation 

 of works. 



