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Mr. Norris remarked that Dr. Hayes' Arctic collection contained a 

 specimen of the common brook trout, (Salmo fontinalis,) taken near God- 

 haven, Greenland ; and specimens of the salmon trout, (Salmo trutta,) 

 common to the coasts of Scotland and new Brunswick, and the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence. 



March 11th. 

 The President, Mr. Lea, in the Chair. 



Thirty- two members present. 



Mr. Warner made some remarks on the imitation of the section of 

 esgs by mathematical lines. 



Dr. Corse exhibited, under the microscope, specimens of Nitella, 

 showing the circulation within the nucule. 



Dr. Carson exhibited specimens of metallic copper, deposited by vol- 

 taic action in the felt of the sunken frigates at Sevastopol. 



March 18 th. 



The President, Mr. Lea, in the Chair. 



Twenty-nine members present. 



The following papers were presented for publication : 



On the West African genus Hemichromus, etc., by Theo. Gill. 



Catalogue of the Fishes of Lower California, etc., by Theo. Gill. 



On some new and little known American Anura, by E. D. Cope. 



March 25th. 



The President, Mr. Lea, in the Chair. 



Twenty-nine members present. 



On report of the respective Committees, the following papers were 

 ordered to be published in the Proceedings : 



Synopsis of the Family of CIRRHITOIDS. 

 BY THEODORE GILL. 



Family CIRRHITOIDS Gray. 



Synonymy. 



Percoidei pt. ) Cm . mu &C- 



Sciaenoidei pt. \ 



Cirrbitidje Gray, Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum. 



" Richardson. 



Theraponidse pt. \ Riehardl0n , 

 Polynemidte pt. ) 

 Oirrhitoidei Bleeker, Acta Societatis Scientiarum Indo-^ederlandicae, vol. n., 



Vischsoorten von Amboina. 

 Cirrhitidse Gtinther, Catalogue of the Acanthopterygian Fishes, &c, vol. ii., 



p. 70. 

 SparidiE (Haplodactylina) Gtinther, op. cit., vol. i., p. 434. 



The body is oblong and compressed, with the dorsal and abdominal outlines 



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