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STATED MEETING, August 22, 1843. 

 Mr. Phillips in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Skins of Tyrannula Traillii, Aud., T. acadica, Gm., T. flavi- 

 ventris, Baird, and T. minima, do. ; intended to accompany 

 the paper from Messrs. Baird, of Carlisle, read before the 

 Academy at the meeting of July 11th last, describing the 

 two last named species. 



Also, Skins of sixty-three other species of North American 

 Birds. All presented by Messrs. Baird, of Carlisle, Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Also, a skeleton of unusual size, nearly entire, of Ursus 

 Americanus, found in a cave near Carlisle. From the 

 same. 



A collection of upwards of one hundred specimens of insects, 



chiefly Coleopterous, from the vicinity of Philadelphia. 



From Mr. Kilvington and Dr. Watson. 

 Two very fine specimens of crystallized Selenite from the 



Patuxent and St. Mary Rivers, Maryland. From Mr. W. 



S. Vaux. 



Two living specimens of Crax alector, from Tampico. From 



Miss Percival, of Philadelphia. 

 A living specimen of Tetrao cupido, (female,) from Missouri. 



From Mr. James Dundas, of Philadelphia. 



A collection in spirits of South American insects, larvae, rep- 

 tilia, &c. From Mr. J. G. Strain, U. S. N. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Descriptions of twelve new species of Uniones, by Isaac Lea. 

 Read before the American Philosophical Society, August 

 18th, 1S43. From Mr. Lea. 



