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Two specimens of the Symmetrical Salamander (Salamandra sym- 

 metrica), and several other specimens not yet arranged. 



J. Heard and J. O. Treat presented two specimens of the Chicken 

 Snake {Coluber eximius). 



Some few other specimens have been presented, but they are not yet 

 arranged. Acknowledgments will be made hereafter. 



Entomology. — This department has been materially increased during 

 the season by the addition of some four or five hundred species^and over 

 two thousand specimens new to the cabinet, most of which were col- 

 lected by persons engaged on the new edition of Han-is' Treatise on 

 Insects. Besides these, we have to thank Mr. E. S. Wheeler, of 

 Berlin, for three boxes of insects from that vicinity, many of which are 

 quite rare and valuable. The attention of contributors is called to the 

 fact of its being impossible to handle or preserve a specimen entire, 

 unless the pin on which it is impaled projects at least half its length below 

 the body of the insect. Valuable specimens have from time to time been 

 presented by Mr. Dennis Murray, of Roxbury ; among them a very 

 fine male of Dryocampa imperialis from that locality. Some specimens 

 of Orthoptera, one quite rare, a Hetrodes, and larvae of JEgeria, were 

 donated by Dr. Morse, of Clinton. 



Exchanges have been made with various individuals for species new 

 to the cabinet, and some few donations have been received from other 

 sources of single specimens, all of which, though acceptable, we have 

 not room to mention here. 



Miscellaneous. — Specimens of iron ores from quarries in West 

 Stockbridge, North Adams, Sheffield, Richmond and Cheshire, have been 

 received from E. R. Tinker, Esq., of North Adams, together with fine 

 specimens of serpentine, from Florida, and white marble from Egremont 

 and North Adams. 



From Marcus Barrett, Esq., of Auburn, specimens of green stone 

 with pyrites. 



A block of consolidated Berkshire sand, from Mr. Burt, of Cheshire. 



Iron ore from West Stockbridge, from Amos Smith, Esq. 



From F. W. Mason, Esq., Dartmouth, fossil arnber, found on the 

 sound side of Nashawannock Island, supposed to have drifted from Gay 

 Head. 



Also specimens of fossil fish from the Connecticut River, from James 

 T. Gunn, Esq. 



Specimens of conglomerate from Anawan Rock, John C. Marvel, 

 Rehoboth. 



