104 [June, 



The liepnrt of the Correponding Secretary for the last month was read 

 and adopted. 



June 3c?. 

 Vice-President Bridges in the Chair. 



Letters were read 



From the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, dated August 

 13th, 1855 ; 



From the Royal Imperial Greological Institute of Vienna, dated 23d 

 September, 1855 ; 



From the Senckenberg Natural History Society, dated February, 

 1856 ; and 



From George Frauenfeld, dated Vienna, 12tli December, 1855, seve- 

 rally announcing donations. 



From Prof. Karl Koch, Secretary of the Society for the Advancement 

 of Horticulture, dated Berlin, 6th February, 1856, acknowledging the 

 receipt of the Proceedings, transmitting donations, and desiring ex- 

 change. Referred to the Publication Committee. 



From the Royal Academy of Sciences of Amsterdam, dated 15th 

 January, 1856 ; and 



From the K. L. C. Academy of Sciences of Breslau, dated 30th 

 January, 1856, severally acknowledging the receipt of the Journal and 

 Proceedings. 



From the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, dated Munich, 

 January 20th, 1856, acknowledging the receipt of the publications of 

 the Academy, and requesting a duplicate set. 



From the Senckenberg Natural History Society, dated February, 

 1856, acknowledging donations. 



From the Academy of Science of St. Louis, dated 24th May, 1856, 

 requesting donations of works on Natural History. 



Mr. Isaac Lea read a paper, entitled, "Description of thirteen species 

 of Exotic Peristoraata;" which was referred to a Committee consisting 

 of Drs. Hallowell, Corse, and J. A. Meigs. 



June \Qth, 

 Vice-President Bridges in the Chair. 



A letter, dated September, 1855, was read from Jas. R. Eckert and 

 Frederick S. Eckert, Executors of the Estate of the late James Read, 

 presenting his herbarium and certain botanical works. 



A paper was presented for publication in the Journal, entitled, '' A 

 Commentary on the 'Synopsis Fungorum in America Boreali media de- 

 gentiura, by L. I), de Schweinitz.' By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M. A., 

 F. L. S., and the Rev. M. A. Curtis, F. A. A. A. S. ;" which was re- 

 ferred to a Committee consisting of Dr. Zantzinger, Mr. Durand, and 

 Dr. Bridges. 



