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Special Meeting, May 8th, 1871. 

 President in the Chair. 



Obadiah Livermore and James Garland were elected resident 

 members. 



Donations to the Cabinet : About sixty species of land and fresh 

 water shells from all the Territories west of the Rocky Mountains, 

 except Arizona, by Mr. Hemphill. Several of them are new, and 

 others very rare. 



On account of the small attendance of members, who did not 

 know generally of this meeting, further business was postponed. 



Regular Meeting, May 15th, 1871. 

 President in the Chair. 



Donations to the Cabinet : Two specimens of bone of the Right 

 Whale, taken at Ounalaska Bay, Behring Sea, 1869 ; also one 

 piece of bone of a Right Whale, taken at Monterey, Cal,, March, 

 1871, were presented by Captain CM. Scammon, U. S. Revenue 

 Marine. 



Mr. Carlton, the Secretary, said that, inasmuch as he should be 

 compelled to resign the position of Secretary after this meeting, he 

 wished to make an explanation in regard to the minutes. He had 

 kept the minutes, in great part, not by engrossing them in the 

 record book, but by pasting therein the reports of each meeting 

 which had appeared in the Bulletin. In compiling the annual re- 

 port, many of these printed slips had been cut out for use therein, 

 and thereby the minutes had been rendered incomplete. He asked 

 to make this statement, so that no blame should attach to him after 

 his departure. 



Dr. Cooper said that, as the work of compiling the annual re- 

 port had devolved upon him, he would explain that the slips which 

 had been cut from the minutes had been preserved, and were ob- 

 tainable at any time. 



