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The monthly report of the Corresponding Secretary was read and 

 adopted. 



The Academy then, in accordance with the resolution adopted at 

 the last meeting for business, proceeded to an election for a Recording 

 Secretary and a Member of the Publication Committee, to supply the 

 vacancies occasioned by the resignation of Dr. Gambel, with the fol- 

 lowing result : — 



Recording Secretary. — Theodore F. Moss. 



Member of Publication Committee. — Dr. Robert Bridges. 



July 3d. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



Letters were read : — 



From William Jameson, Esq., dated Quito, May 1st, 1849, 

 announcing that he was preparing for the Academy another collection 

 of Plants from the Andes, more extensive and varied than that pre- 

 viously sent, and in which he designed to group the species, so as to 

 illustrate in some degree the modifications produced by elevation. 



From Dr. Michel, of Charleston, S. C, dated June 25th, 1349, 

 stating his intention to furnish to the Society, some additional remarks 

 on the reproduction of the Opossum, " having recently confirmed his 

 opinion expressed in a former communication to the Academy, that 

 this Marsupial, like the Kangaroo, described by Owen, has no placental 

 connection whatever." 



From the Librarian of the British Museum, dated 1st June, 1849, 

 returning acknowledgments for late numbers of the Proceedings. 



From Edward Blythe, Esq., dated Calcutta, April 18th, 1849, 

 acknowledging the receipt of his notice of election as a Correspondent. 



From the Academy of Natural Sciences of Breslau, dated 1 3th April, 

 1849, acknowledging the receipt of the Proceedings from May to 

 September 1848, 



From M. Verreaux, dated Paris, April 14th, 1849, returning 

 acknowledgments for his election as a Correspondent. 



Dr. Hallowell read a description of a new species of Eryx, (E. 

 Tnaculatvs) from Madras, with a colored drawing of the same, intended 

 for publication in the Proceedings, which was referred to Drs. Keller, 

 Bridges, and Townsend. 



Dr. Hallowfll also stated that the Salamander described by him in 

 the sixth number. Vol. IV., of the Proceedings, (Sulamandra luirubris,) 

 was from the Sandwich Islands, and not from Upper California; the 

 error having arisen from a false label attached to the bottle containing 

 the specimen. 



