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County ; it appears to be different from the teeth of any animal 

 yet found on this coast, either living or fossil. He considered it as 

 probably belonging to the hyrena ; if so, this was the first notice of 

 the occurrence of this animal on the American continent. 



Dr. Cooper stated that Mr. Ridgeway, the zoologist appointed 

 to accompany the Government exploration of Russian America, 

 when on that coast, a few years since, had found birds nearly 

 identical with living species in Asia — a fact of much interest, since 

 none of the same species are found on the eastern coast of Amer- 

 ica. There is here another suggestion of the former intimate re- 

 lations between Western America and Eastern Asia. 



Regular Meeting, May 20th, 1867. 

 Vice President Ransom in the Chair. 



Twenty-nine members present. 



Messrs. John P. Cairns, J. W. C. Maxwell, Constantine Heusch, 

 William Fischel, E. W. Burr, Archibald C. Peachy, J. P. H. Went- 

 worth, C. P. Stanford, Henry Gibbons, Jr., M.D., and P. M. Ran- 

 dall, M.D., were elected Resident Members. 



Donations to the Cabinet : Fossils from Mission Peak, Alameda 

 County, by Mr. Bosqui ; and from Japan, by Mr. Lorquin. 



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 same) 1866. Meteorologisch Jaarboek, uitgegeven door het kon. 

 Nederlandsch Meteorologisch -Instituut, 1865 ; two parts, long 4to, 

 Utrecht, 1866. Die Regenverhaltnisse des Konigreichs Han- 

 nover, &c, von Dr. M. A. F. Prestel, Emden, 1861. Festschrift 

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 Supplement Heft, (Claus, die Copepoden Fauna von Nizza) 4to, 

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