142 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 



America in Ante-historic Times, by Adolph Zestermann of Leipzic, with 

 Critical Observations by E. G. Squier, 1851, — Volcanoes of Cent. Amer- 

 ica, by E. G. Squier, 1850, from the Author; Cariad. Journal of Industry, 

 Science and Art, Sept. 1860, from the Canadian Institute } Notes d'un 

 Voyage dans l'Ame'iique Centra le, — Lettres a M. Alfred Maury, Bihliot. 

 de l'lnst. (Ext. des Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, Paris, Aoflt, 1855, — 

 Lettre de M. E. G. Squier, a. propos de la lettre de M. Brasseur de 

 Bourbourg, a M. Alt'. Maury, Paris, 1855, from E. G. Squier, Esq. ; 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Sept. 1860, from the Academy ; Observa- 

 tions upon the Form of the Occiput in the Various Races of Men, by J. 

 Aitken Meigs, Philad. 1860, from the Author ; Proc. Boston Society Nat. 

 Hist., Sep. &. Oct., 1860, from the Society; Original Communications from 

 the N. Orleans Med. & Surg. Journal, Nov. 1860, from Bennett Dowler, 

 M.D.; Bull, de la Soc. Imp. zool. d'Acclim. Paris, from the Society. 



Mr. Holmes presented, in the name of A. F. Bandelier, a 

 series of fossils from Illinois, and Mr. Reid specimens of as- 

 phaltum, petroleum, and fossils, from Canada West. 



The committee to whom was referred the paper of Prof. 

 Swallow on New Fossils from the Carboniferous and Devo- 

 nian Rocks of Missouri, reported the same for publication in 

 the Transactions. 



November 19, 1860. 

 The President, Dr. Prout, in the chair. 



Eleven members present. 



Letters were read from the Essex Institute. Salem, Mass., Nov. 6,1860, 

 acknowledging receipt of No. 4 of Transactions; Sec. of the Smithson. 

 Inst. Wash., D. C, Nov. 1860, enclosing list of shells presented to the 

 Academy by the Smithsonian Institution ; Soc. Roy. des Sciences, Upsal ; 

 Socie''e' Imperiale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, transmitting 

 publications; Natnrk. Verein in Augsburg, Aug. 27, 1860, -Nat. Hist. 

 Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct. 6, 

 1860, acknowledging receipt of Transactions; Lem. T. Wells, Cincin- 

 nati, O., acknowledging notice of his election as a Corresponding Member 

 of the Academy. 



The following donations to the library were received : 



The Rock and Coal Oils of Ohio, by J. S. Newberry, M.D., 1829,/rcm 

 the Author; Der Zool. Garten, Organ der Zool. Gesellsch. in Frankfurt 

 a M., Herausg. von Dr. D. F. Weinland, No. 7-12, 1860, from the Editor; 

 N. Orl. Med. & Surg. Jour., No. 6, Nov. 1860,/ro??* the Editors ; Journal 

 Frank. Inst., No. 5, Nov. 1860, /row the Institute; Nova Acta, Roy. Soc. 

 Sci. Uspal Ser. III., Vol. I. & II.,— Arsskrift of same, 1, from the Royal 

 Society; Dritter Jahres-bericht des naturf. Vereins in Passau, for 1859, 

 1860, from the Society; Mem. Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, T. VI. & 

 VII., 1858-9, from the Society; Tab. Method, et Descrip. des Molli'sques 

 terrestres et d'eau douce de l'Agenais, par M. J. B. Gassies, Paris, 1849, — 

 Catalog, raisonne des Mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce de la Giionde, 

 par M. J. B. Gassies, Paris, 1859, from the Author; XIII. Jahresb. des 

 Naturhist. Vereins in Augsburg, 1860, from the Society; Actes de la So- 

 cio e Linn, de Bordeaux, Tome XXII., 3e. Ser., T. II., Paris, 1860. from 

 the Society ; List of Shells collected in the Grand River Valley, Michigan, 

 by A. O. Currier, 1860,/rom the Author; Amenka, Geograph. und Natur- 



