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ca," with drawings, illustrating the following species, namely, 

 Phyllogonium Norvegicvm, Brid. (recently detected in Ohio)- 

 Fissidens tnmutulus, Sulliv. ; F. exigutis, SuUiv. ; Schisti- 

 dium serratum, Hook. & Wils. ; Aneura sessilis, Sulliv, ; 

 Marchantia disjuncta, Sulliv. ; Notothylas valvata and N. or- 

 bicularis, Sulliv. 



Dr. Holmes, from the committee appointed at the meeting 

 in March to report upon the case of Henry Safford, the young 

 Vermont mathematician, stated, that, at the request of Profes- 

 sor Peirce, the drawing up of a full report had been deferred 

 until the arrival of the boy in this vicinity, where he is ex- 

 pected to reside. Some interesting statements were made by 

 Professor Peirce, from which it would appear that the mere 

 calculating faculty is not by any means as remarkable in him 

 as it was in Zerah Colburn, but that it is rather incidental, as 

 a part of extraordinary reflective powers, 



S. P. Andrews, Esq., of Boston, and George Engelmann, 

 M. D., of St, Louis, Missouri, were elected Fellows of the 

 Academy. 



The following were elected Foreign Honorary Members of 

 the Academy, viz. : — 



Prof. Louis Agassiz, of Neuchatel, Switzerland. 



M. Edouard de Verneuil, of Paris, 



M, Joseph Decaisne, Professor at the Jardin des Plantes, 

 Paris. 



DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY, 



FROM MAY TO AUGUST, 1846. 



Jomard. Seconde Note sur une Pierre gravee trouvee dans un An- 

 cien Tumulus Americain, 8vo, pamph, Paris, 1845. From the 

 Author. 



Catalogue of Stars, made under the Direction of the British Associ- 

 ation for the Advancement of Science. 4to. London, 1845, From the 

 Association. 



Address at the Inauguration of the Honorable Edward Everett, as 



