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152 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



R., S. A., by Crawford Coates ; and nestB of the Trap-Door Spider, by Dr_ 

 George Davidson. 



Fossils. A choice collection of fossils, consisting of cetacean vertebra?-,, 

 shark teeth, &c, from the Ashley River deposit, S. C, presented by Philip 

 Wineman, through Messrs. Powers & AVeightman. Two cetacean vertebras 

 and several shark teeth and a vertebra, from the same locality, presented by 

 Col. D. W. Hagler, U. S. Arsenal, Georgia. A metacarpal of Megalonyx and 

 a tooth of an extinct Ox, from Illinois, presented by Henry Greene and Dr. 

 E. D. Kittoe. Two fossil bones from Kansas, presented by Dr. W.F. McAl- 

 lister ; fragments of a fossil reptile bone, from Clarksville, N. J., by S. .R. 

 Roberts ; and a large log of silicified wood, from Greenwich, N. J., presented 

 by Dr. Geoge B. Wood. A collection of fossil plants was also received from 

 France, in exchange. 



Comparative Anatomy. Cranium of an Indian, from Greenwich, N. J., pre- 

 sented by Dr. George B. Wood ; another specimen from near Woodbury, N. J., 

 presented by George M. Tatum. Skull of a rat with distorted growth of an 

 incisor tooth, presented by Richard L. Nicholson. Tusk of a Walrus, from 

 Sitka, presented by Capt. George Wright, U. S. A. 



Botany. The herbarium of the late Thomas G. Lea, of Cincinnati, Ohio 

 presented by James M. Lea, with the condition that it shall be preserved 

 separately as the " Lea Herbarium" A collection of upwards of one hundred 

 species of plants from Alameda, Cal., presented by Dr. W. P. Gibbons. A 

 collection of cones of forty-four species of couif'era?, presented by Josiah 

 Hoopes, Thomas Meehan and I. M. Thorbum. Six species of ferns, from 

 Venezuela, presented by Thomas Guckert. A small collection of marine alga;, 

 from Washington Ter., presented by Mrs. Samuel Stork, and another, from 

 Ceylon, presented by Dr. A. C. Hamlin. 



Minerals. Two remarkably fine crystallized specimens of Epidote, from 

 Untersulzbach, Tyrol, presented by Wm. P. Wilstach ; a large crystal of 

 Beryl, from Chester Co., Pa., presented by W. S. Vaux ; and a fine mass of 

 Graphite, from Ceylon, presented by T. Guilford Smith. The following 

 specimens were also presented: Calamine, Sussex Co., N. J., by Thomas S. 

 Wiegand ; Magnetic Iron, Essex Co., N. Y., by J. Blodget Britton ; Margarite, 

 Emery and Diaspore, Chester, Mass., by J. B. Taft; Zincite and Jeffersonite, 

 Sussex Co., N. J., by Garret Kemble ; Corundum in Lesleyite, Tourmaline, 

 Muscovite and Oligocluse, Chester Co., and Phlogopite, Burgess, Canada, by 

 Dr. Isaac Lea ; Gold in slate, Montgomery, N. C, by Dr. F. A. Genth ; Graphic 

 Granite, Del. Co., Pa., by Joseph Wilcox and Dr. S. B. Howell ; Kieserite, 

 Stassfurth, Magdeburg, by E. Goldsmith ; Galena, Crawford Co., 111., by John 

 Levering; Apatite, Burgess, Canada, by Clarence L Bement. A number of 

 minerals were also received in exchange. 



Miscellaneous. A collection of Indian stone relics, from Catawba R., N. C, 

 presented by Aden. Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. ; and another small collection of 

 Indian relics from Manatee R., Florida, presented by Dr. C. J. Clebourne, 

 U. S. N. 



Respectfully submitted by Joseph Leidy, 



Chairman of the Curators. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL COMMITTEE. 



To the President and Members of the Academy : 



The Botanical Committee of the Academy respectfully reports that during 

 the past year the collections made during the war by Dr. Hayden in South 

 Carolina, and in 1&G9 in Western Nebraska by the same gentleman, have been 

 named. Almost all of the species were already in the Academy, but many of 



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