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The Twin-flower, Linncea borealis 32 



Swim-bladder of Cynoscion regalis 152 



Swim-bladder of Micropogon undulatus after Sorensen 153 



Swim-bladder of Prionotus carolinus 155 



Swim-bladder of Opsanus tau 156 



Swim-bladder of Opsanus tau 167 



ERRATA. 



Page 40, line 2.— Instead of "Sachalin," read "Saghalin." 



Page 68, line 5. — Instead of " jeter", read "lever." 



Page 147, line 29.— Instead of "Mitchell," read " Mitchill." 



Page 281, line 31. — Instead of " eocy slides," read " eocystites." 



Page 316, line 15.— Instead of "Northrup", read "Northup." 



Page 324, line 29.— Instead of "cen^", read "cm^." 



Pages 329 and 330. — Instead of " Bufo aqua" , read " Bufo agua." 



Page 339, line 19.— Instead of "F. W. Pedersen", read "F. M. Pedersen." 



Page 341, line 18.— Instead of "Size", read "Pfizer." 



NOTE REGARDING THE CHESTER MASTODON. 



The attention of the Editor has been called to the account of the finding, 

 exhumation and character of the remains of the Chester, N. Y., mastodon ^ 

 which was printed in The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, 

 Vol. I, pp. 195, 196, New York, July, 1817. This publication is so rare 

 that the account is reprinted here. 



LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



Sitting of June 2. 



Dr. Mitchill, the president of the Lyceum, and Dr. Townsend, the committee 

 appointed, by a resolve of the society, to visit and explore the tract between the 

 Highlands and the Catskill Mountains, made a report in part; from which report the 

 following is an extract: 



"It was the good fortune of the commissioners to find another skeleton of that 

 huge creatiue the Elephas Mastodon, which though apparently extinct, was formerly 

 an inhabitant of New- York. This happened on the 27th and 29th of May, upon the 

 farm of Mr. Yelverton, near Chester, a village in the town of Goshen. The soil is a 

 black peat or turf, sufficiently inflammable to be employed for fuel. Its surface is 

 overgrown with grass, forming a luxuriant meadow for grazing. — The herbage and 

 the bottom in which it grows, have a near resemblance to the turf meadow of Newton, 

 in Queen's County, Long Island. The sward and turf covering the skeleton are about 



1 Noted with facsimile reproduction of Dr. Townsend's drawing in this Volume, p. 147 

 PI. V, 



