INDEX. 



XI. 



Owen, Dr. D. D., don. to mus., xxvii., 

 xliv. ; don. to lib., liv. ; remarks on 

 human foot prints in limestone, 106 ; 

 notice of a new mineral from Cali- 

 fornia, 108; remarks on Fusilina lime- 

 stone and Tutenmergel, US ; remarks 

 on his geological map of Wisconsin, 

 Iowa and Minnesota, 189 ; communi- 

 cation in relation to his description 

 of a supposed new Earth, 379. 



Ord, George, don. to lib., ix., xix., 

 xxii., xxviii., lix., Ixiv. 



Page, Geo. W., don. to mus., Ixiv. 



Paine, Dr. Martyn, don. to lib., xl. 



Pearsall, Robert, don. to mus., vii. 



Peirce, Jacob, reference to a Hybrid 

 between the Peacock and Guinea 

 Fowl, 50. 



Penna. Farm Journal, don. of, by Edi- 

 tors, ii., ix., xi., xiv. 



Perley, M. H., don. to lib., xxxiii. 



Peterson, R. E., don. to mus., xxviii. 



Phillips, John, don. to mus., viii., Ixxv. 



Piddington, Henry, don. to lib., lix. 



Powel, Samuel, don. to mus.,. vii., 

 xxxvi., Ixxiv. 



Prescott, Wm. H., don. to lib., xiv. 



Proceedings, Committee on. Report by, 

 219. 



Publication Committee, Reports by, 28, 

 238 ; announcement by, of publication 

 of Part 2, Vol. 2, new series of 

 Journal, 29 ; do. of Part 3, 225 ; don. 

 to lib., vi. 



Quetelet, M. A., don. to lib., xv. 



Rand, Dr. B. H., don. to mus., xxvii., 

 Ixiv., Ixviii. ; don. to lib., Iv., Ixvii. 



Ravenel, H. W., don. to mus., Ixviii. ; 

 don. to lib., Ixvi. 



Read, Dr. M. C., Catalogue of the Birds 

 of Northern Ohio, 395. 



Recording Secretary, Report of for 1851, 

 28; do. for 1852, 214 ; do. for 1853, 

 453. 



Regents of the University of State of 

 New York; don. to lib., Ixi., Ixix., 

 Ixx. 



Reports of Committees : on Dr. Leidy's 

 paper on the Hippopotamus, 70 ; on 

 Mr. Lea's description of a fossil Sau- 

 rian from the new Red Sandstone of 



Penna., and on some new fossil Mol- 

 luscs, &c., 105; on Dr. Le Conte's 

 Synopsis of genus Pterostichus, 116 ; 

 on Dr. Owen's description of a new 

 Mineral and a new Earth, 3 ; on Dr. 

 Heermann's notices of California 

 Birds, 197 ; on a paper by the Rev. 

 Drs. Berkeley and Curtis, on the 

 Exotic Fungi from the Schweinitzian 

 Herbarium, 302 ; on Mr. Conrad's 

 description of a new species of Unio, 

 316 ; on Mr. Girard's " Researches on 

 Nemerteans and Planarians, 435 ; on 

 Dr. Leidy's description of Bathyg- 

 nathus borealis, 448; on Mr. Conrad's 

 Monograph of Argonauta, &c., 448. 

 RepoTt of Committee appointed to con- 

 fer with Dr. Kane on the subject of 

 his proposed American Arctic Expe- 

 dition, 196. 

 Report of Committee appointed to col- 

 lect subscriptions for enlarging the 

 Hall, 238. 

 Report of Committee appointed to pro- 

 cure funds for the purchase of the 

 Anatomical Collection of the late Dr. 

 S. G. Morton, 321. 

 Resolutions ; to present a copy of the 

 Proceedings to Dr. H. A. Ford, of 

 Liberia, 55 ; to appoint a committee 

 to communicate with Com. Perry in 

 relation to making collections in In- 

 dia by the U. S. Expedition, 55 ; of 

 thanks to Major Le Conte for his Her- 

 barium of N. A. Plants, 58 ; inviting 

 the State Medical Society to visit the 

 Museum, 105 ; giving to subscribers 

 of SlOO, and upwards, to the fund for 

 enlarging the Hall, the right during 

 life to visit the collections and give 

 orders of admission to JNIuseum, 28 ; 

 directing the income from the Stott 

 legacy to be applied to the Journal 

 fund, 30: in reference to Dr. Rusch- 

 enberger's "Notice of the Academy," 

 33 ; appointing a Committee to confer 

 with Dr. Kane in relation to his pro- 

 posed Arctic Expedition, 196 ; urging 

 upon Congress an appropriation for 

 the geological survey of Oregon and 

 the Mauvaises Terres of Nebraska, 

 239; directing a special meeting of 

 the Academy to consider the expedi- 

 ency of erecting a new Hall, 321 ; in 

 relation to latter, 323 ; of thanks to 

 Chas. Henry Fisher and Thos. Biddle, 

 325; of thanks to W. S. Vaux, Dr. 

 CD. Meigs and John Cooke, 324 ; 

 in reference to the decease of J. Price 

 Wetherill,376 ; granting the privilege 



