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STATED MEETING, May 9, 1843. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Several specimens of Orthoceras, from Orwigsburg, Pennsyl- 

 vania ; and Indian arrow heads, found in Columbia county, 

 Pennsylvania. Presented by Mr. J. A. Lessig. 



Various specimens of the fossil genera Favosites, Madrepora, 

 Cyathophyllum, and Orthoceras in Limestone, from Indi- 

 ana. Presented by Dr. Edward Fussel, of Indiana. 



Crinoid organic remains, from the" Limestone of Missouri. 

 Presented by Dr. Benjamin B. Brown, of St. Louis, Mis- 

 souri, through Dr. Morton. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Reply of Col. AbertandMr. Markoeto the Hon. Mr. Tappan, 

 of the U. S. Senate. From the Authors. 



A Geological History of Manhattan, or New York Island. 

 By Issachar Cozzens, Jr. New York, 1S43. From the 

 Author. 



Medical and Physical Memoirs. By Charles Caldwell, M. D. 

 Philadelphia, 1S01. From Mr. Phillips. 



Historise Amphibiorum Naturalis et literariae fasciculus 

 primus continens Ranas, Calaminatis,&c. Auctore J. Gott- 

 lieb Schneider. From the same. 



The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology. 

 Botany, Mineralogy, &c. 19 Nos. ; from January, 1831, 

 to February, 1835. From Dr. Morton. 



The Natural History of Barbadoes, in ten books. By 

 Griffith Hughes, London. 1750. Folio. From the same 



