1856.] 3 



By Elias Durand. Plants; Prattenianiae Californicse ; an enumeration of a 

 collection of California Plants, made in the vicinity of Nevada, by Henry Pratten, 

 Esq., of New Harmony, Ind., with critical notices of such as are new or yet un- 

 published in America. Published in the Journal. 



By F. A. Genth, Ph. D., two, to wit: Herrerite identical with Smithsonite ; Analy- 

 ^^is of the meteoric Iron from Tuczon, Province of Sonora, Mexico. 



By Charles Girard, two, to wit : Abstract of a Report to Lieut. James M. Gillis. 

 U. S. Navy, upon the Reptiles collected during the U. S. Naval Astronomical Ex- 

 pedition to Chili; Observations upon the viviparous Fishes inhabiting the Pacific 

 coast of North America, with an enumeration of the species observed. 



By T. Charlton Henry, M. D. Notes derived from observations made on the 

 Birds of New Mexico, during the years 1853 and 1854. 



By Isaac Lea, L L. D. Description of a new MoUusk from the Red Sandstone 

 near Pottsville, Pa. 



By Major John Le Conte, F. L. S., three, to wit : Description of new species of 

 Astacus from Georgia ; On a new species of Gelasimus ; Remarks on two species 

 of American Cimex. 



By John L. Le Conte, M. D., eight, to wit: Descriptions of the species of Trox and 

 Omorgus inhabiting the United States ; Some corrections in the nomenclature 

 of Coleoptera found in the United States ; Description of new Coleoptera collected 

 by Thomas H. Webb, M. D., in the years 1850, '51 and '52, while Secretary to 

 the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission ; Synopsis of Pyrophroides 

 of the United States ; Synopsisof the Lathridiides of the L^nited States ; Analyti- 

 cal table of the species of Ih^droporus found in the United States, with descriji- 

 tion of new species; Notes on the Amarai of the United States; Synopsis of the 

 Hydrophilidaj of the United States. 



By Joseph Leidy, M. D., four, to wit : Remarks on the identity of Bootherium 

 cavifrons with Ovibos moschatus or 0. maximus ; Indications of twelve .specif s 

 of Fossil Fishes ; Contributions to aknowledgeof the Marine Invertebrate Fauna 

 of the coasts of Rhode Island and New Jersey ; published in the Journal. In- 

 dications of five species with two new genera of extinct Fishes. 



By J. Aitken Meigs, M. D: Relation of Atomic Heat to Crystalline Form. Pul- 

 lished in the Journal. 



By Joseph G. Norwood and Henry Pratten : Notice of Fossils from the Carbc - 

 niferous Series of the Western States. Published in the Journal. 



By James E. Powel. On the Habits of the Moose. 



By Prof. A. Retzius, of Copenhagen : On artificially formed Skulls from the 

 Ancient World. 



By William Stimpson, two, to wit : Descriptions of some new Invertebrata 

 from the Chinese and Japanese Seas, &c., Part I. ; Description of some new 

 Marine Invertebrata, Part II. 



By Phillip R. Uhler : Descriptions of some Coleoptera supposed to be new. 



By Charles M. Wetherill, M. D., Ph. D : Chemical Notices. 



In all forty-five. 



All of which is respectfully submitted by, 



B. Howard Rano, Recording Secretary. 



The Society then proceeded to an election for Standing Committees 

 for 1856, which resulted as follows : 



EtJincdogyj John S. Phillips, Samuel S. Haldeman, J. Aitken Meigs : 

 Comparative Anatomy and General Zoology, Joseph Leidy, Edward 

 Hallowell, John H. Brinton ; Mammalogy, John L. Le Conte, John 

 Caa.sin, William Caniac ; Ornithology, John Cassin, Edward Harris 

 (leorge A. McCall; Herpctology and Ichthyology, Edward Hallowell, 

 J. L. Le Conte, Gavin Watson ; Conchology, T. A. Conrad, T. B. 

 Wilson, Charles E. Smith; Entomology orid Crustacea, Wm. S. Zant- 



