vu. 



Fehmary \1th. 



Journal d'Agriculture et Transactions de la Societe d'Agriculture du Bas- 

 Canada. Vol. b. No. J. From the Society. 



Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia. Vol. 5. Nos. 8 and 9. 

 From the Editors. 



Charleston Medical Journal and Review for Jan., 1852. From the Editors. 



Report of the Commissioners appointed to superintend the completion of the 

 publication of the Natural History of New York. Jan. 13, 1852. 



Dr. Wilson presented the following, on the usual condition : 



Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophic Society of Manchester. 2d series, 

 Vol. 9. Svo. 



Comptes Rendus. Tome 33. Nos. 24, 25, 26. 



Conchologia iconica. By Lovell Reeve. No. 103. 



Illustrations of British Mycology. By Mrs. T. J. Hussey. 2d series. Part 13. 



The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera. By E. Doubleday : continued by J. O. 

 Westwood. Part 51. 



Cours elementaire de Paleontologie et de Geologic Stratigraphiques. Par 

 Alcide D'Orbigny. Tome 2d. Fascic. 1. 12mo. Atlas, 4to. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 2d series. No. 49. Jan., 1852. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. February, 1852. 



History of the British Mollusca and their Shells. By Prof. Forbes and S. 

 Hanley. Part 43. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM 



In March and April, 1852. 



March 2d. 



A collection of Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Myriapoda, Scorpions, &c., from New 

 Mexico ; and a cranium of Coyote, from the same. Presented by Mr. Richard 

 H. Kern. 



Cranium of a Hindoo, found on the margin of the Ganges by Dr. C. B. Mat- 

 thews. Presented by Dr. B. H. Coates. 



March 9th. 



Two prepared heads of Gentoo Indians, from the Purus river, a tributary of 

 the Amazon. Presented by Mr. Amory Edwards. 



Eight specimens of Fossilized Wood, from . From Dr. J. L. Le Conte. 



Fragments of Rock with adhering Terebratula, from New Zealand. From 

 Mr. Robert Pearsall. 



March 16th. 



An incisor tooth, two molars and two ossa petrosa of Casteroides Ohioensis, 

 from near Shawneetown, Illinois. From Dr. Le Conte. 



Molar of a fossil Tapir, from North Carolina; and mould in plaster, with 

 several casts of the same. Presented by Dr. Isaac Hays. 



March 23d. 



Fossil Shells from Georgia and Alabama ; an Echinus and Corals from the 

 latter; and Lignite from North Carolina. From Mr. Jessup. 



Entire specimen of Asaphus caudatus, from Montgomery Co., Pa. Presented 

 by Dr. J. J. Updegraff. 



Three Teeth of the Spermaceti Whale. From Mr. Samuel Powel. 



Nodule of Sulphuret of Iron, from the Chalk of Sussex, England ; Helix Cun- 

 ninghamii, from New South Wales; H. lapicida, from Portugal?; 190 specimens, 

 54 species of British Crustacea; Palaemon ornatus, from Africa; P. carcinus, 

 from the Philippines; 41 specimens of British Echinodermata ; Fry of Buccinum 

 undatum; seven species of British Shells: seven Skeletons of Birds from Mo- 

 zambique, Gaboon and New Zealand ; five specimens of Branchiostoma lubricum, 

 Salmo sembla, and Gasterosteus spinachia. Presented by Dr>i T. B. Wilson. 



