November, 1S43.] S17 



fossil shells from the Tertiary of Petersburg, Virginia." By 

 Henry C. Lea, of Philadelphia. From the Author. 



First Annual Report of the Secretary of the Commonwealth 

 to the Legislature, under act of March, 1842, relating to 

 the registry and returns of birth, marriages, and deaths 

 in Massachusetts. February, 1S43. From Dr. Morton. 



Copy of the Constitution and By-laws of the Northern Aca- 

 demy of Arts and Sciences, at Hanover, N. H.; and second 

 annual report of the Officers and Students of Dartmouth 

 College, N. H., for the Academical year, 1843-4. From 

 the Northern Academy. 



WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. 



A letter was read from G. Fischer de Waldheim, Vice 

 President of the Imperial Society of Moscow, dated 7th of 

 March, 1S43, accompanying the above donation of the So- 

 ciety's Bulletin. 



STATED MEETING, November 21, 1843. 



Mr. Phillips in the Chair. 

 donations to library. 



Calcutta Journal of Natural History, conducted by John 



McClelland. Nos. 9, 10, 11, and 12. From the Editor. 

 The following Memoirs on the Law of Storms in India, 



presented by the Author, Henry Piddington, Esq.: 

 Fourth Memoir: containing researches about the Golconda's 



storm, or the Typhoon of 22d to 24th of September, 1840, 



in the China seas. 



Fifth Memoir: being researches about the Madras hurricane 

 of 16th of May, 1841. 



