644 TRANS. OP THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE, 



JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



June 5, 1S65. 



The President, Dr. Engelmann, in the chair. 



Seven members present. 



Letters were read from the Smithsonian Institution, Wash- 

 ington, dated May 9, 1865, and May 18, 1865, announcing a 

 donation of type specimens of fossils. 



The following publications were received: 



Mineral Resources of Nevada Territory, in a letter from J. P. Usher, 

 Acting Secretary of the Interior, to the House of Representatives, 37th 

 Congress, 3d Session, from the Hon. Secretary. Amer. Jour, of Science 

 and Arts, No. 117, May, 1805, New Haven. Annals of the Lyceum of 

 Nat. Hist, of New York, vol. vii., Nos. 1-2, 1861, Nos. 13-16, 1862, from 

 the Society. Atti della Soeieta di Acclimazione, T. iv., No. 7-10, Palermo, 

 1864, from the Society. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. of Philadelphia, vol. 

 xiii., pt. i., 4to, 1865, from the Society. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 ix.,Feb. and March, 1865, from the Society. Reportof the 12th Ann. Meet- 

 ing of the Amer. Pharmaceutical Society at Cincinnati, from Dr. San- 

 der. Report on Mineral Laws of the Richwood Mining Co., with a Ge- 

 ological Map, St, Louis, 1865, by Prof. Swallow and Dr. Shumard, from 

 the Authors. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented from the Smith- 

 sonian Institution a collection of type specimens of fossils 

 from the Upper Missouri, collected by Lieut. G. K. Warren, 

 U. S. A., and Dr. F. V. Hayden, and also a series of miscel- 

 laneous fossils of the United States, collected by F. V. Meek, 

 as a donation to the Academy, for which due acknowledg- 

 ments were directed to be made. 



Dr. Engelmann exhibited a hen's egg, with a corrugated 

 shell, containing a double yolk. 



On motion of Dr. Boisliuiere, the Anthropological Society, 

 the Entomological Society, and the Meteorological Society, 

 of France, and the name of Dr. Paul Broca, were directed to 

 be placed upon the list of exchanges. 



June 19, 1865. 



The President, Dr. Engelmann, in the chair. 



Five members present. 



Letters were read from the Smithsonian Institution, Wash- 

 ington, June 3, 1865; K .Preuss. Akad. der Wissenschaften, 

 Berlin, Feb. 28, 1865; K. Akad. der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 

 Feb. 1, 1865, announcing publications sent. 



Publications were received, as follows : 



Proc. Amer. Acad, of Arts and Sciences, vol. vi., pp. 341-364, from the 

 Academy. Zool. mineral. Verein: Correspondenz-blatt. Jahrg. xviii., Re- 



