BOSTON 



JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY, 



COIJTAINING 



PAPERS AND COMMUNICATIONS, 



BEAD BEFORE THE 



Boston cSocCetg of Katttral J|(fltorfi, 



AND PUBLISHED BY THEIR DIRECTION. 



VOL. IV.— NO. 1. 



PtTBLISHISTG COMMITTEE. 



GEORGE B. EMERSON, 

 THADDEUS W. HARRIS, 



AUGUSTUS A. GOULD, 

 D. HUMPHREYS STORER, 



CHARLES K, DILLAWAY. 



BOSTON: 

 CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN. 



1842. 



