JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 575 



Rep. of (he U. S. Sanitary Commission; Amer. Naturalist, vol. i., No. 

 1, Salem, Mass., from the Editors. Rep. on the Condition of the Indiau 

 Tribes, from Hon. B. Gratz Brown. 



Mr. Holmes presented from Prof. Jules Marcou, of Paris, 

 France, a copy of Prof. Geinitz's Descriptions of Fossils 

 from the Carboniferous and Dyassic formations in Nebraska. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a paper by Mr. Edwin 

 Harrison, on the Porphyry Hills of South-east Missouri, pre- 

 sented for publication. Referred to the Committee on Pub- 

 lication. 



Dr. Engelmann remarked that the present month of March 

 had been the coldest he had observed here in thirty-eight 

 years. 



April 1, 1867. 



The President in the chair. 



Eleven members present. 



Letters were read. 



The following publications were received : 



Annual Rep. of the Entomological Soc. of Canada, Quebec, 1867, 

 from the Society. Jour, of the Soc. of Arts, vol. xiv., 1865-6, from the 

 Society. Jour, of the Royal Horticultural Soc. of London, vol. i. pt. iv., 

 1867 ; Proc, vol. i., No. 6, 1867, from the Society. Trans. Royal Scot- 

 tish Soc. of Arts, vol. vii., pt. 2, Edinburgh, 1866, from the Society. 

 Deutsche Ornithol. Gesellschaft zu Halberstadt : Bericht, 1862, from the 

 Society. K. Akad. der Wissenschaften : Sitzungs-b. i. Abtheil.. Hi. 

 Band, 4-5, Heft, 1865 ; liii. Ed., 1-5, Heft, 1866 ; liv. Band, 1 Heft, 1866; 

 ii. Abtheil., liii. Band, 1-5 Heft, 1866 ; liv. Band, i. Heft, 1866, Wien, 

 from the Academy. K. bayer. Akad. du Wissenschaften: Sitzungsb. 

 i., Heft 1-4; ii., Heft 1-4, Miinchen, 1866; Annalen der Sternwarte, 

 v. Band, from the Academy. Der Zoologische Garten, vii. Jahrg. 

 1866, No. 7-12, from the Society. K. Danske Videnskabernes Sels- 

 kabs : Oversigt, 1864-1S66, No. 2-4, from the Society. K. Akad. der 

 Wissenschaften zu Erfurt : Jahrb. 1866, Heft 4-5, from the Society. So- 

 ciiSle' des Sciences Nat. de Neuchatel : Bulletin, T. vii., pt. 2, 1866, from 

 the Society. Offenbacher Verein fur Naturkunde : vii. Bericht, 1865-6, 

 from the Society. Entomologische Zeitung, Stettin, 1866, from the Soci- 

 ety. Senkenbergische Naturf. Gesellschaft : Abhandl. vi. Band. 1-2 

 Heft, Frankfurt a M. 1866, from the Society. Nova Acta Reff. Soc. Sci- 

 entiarum Upsal., vol. vi., fasc. 1, 1866, from the Society. Blicke in das 

 Universum, von L. Grusen, Leipzig, from Dr. B. F. Shumard. 



April 15, 1867. 



The President in the chair. 



Seven members present. 

 Publications were received as follows : 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. vi., pp. 33-64, from the Society. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., No. 5, 1866, from the Academy. Bulletin 

 de la Soc. Imp. Zool. d'Acclimatation, T. iv., No. 1-2, Paris, 1S67, from 



