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gesch. von Bruckner, from C. Witter; Med. Statistics of U. S. Army 

 during Hie years 18f>5-59, from Dr. Leigh. Dr. Engelmann laid o.i the 

 table "a Latin translation of his monograph on Cuscuta (Trans. Acad. 

 Sci. St Louis, Vol. I., p. 453,) presented by the translator, Dr. A.cherson, 

 of Berlin. 



Mr. Holmes presented, in the name of Mr. Bandelier, sev- 

 eral slabs of coal shale with fossil plants from Illinois. 



Prof. Holtzman, of Heidelberg, Germ., was elected a Corres- 

 ponding Member. 



December 3, 1860. 

 The President, Dr. Pkout, in the chair. 



Nine members present. 



Letters were read from Wm. "W.Jeffries, dated West Ches- 

 ter, Penn., proposing exchange of minerals, and from Prof. E. 

 "W. Hilgard, State Geologist, Oxford, Miss., acknowledging 

 his election as a Corresponding Member. 



Additions to the library were received as follows : 



Observations upon the Geology and Palaeontology of Burlington, Iowa, 

 and its vicinity, by Chas. A. White, I860, from the Author ; Report on 

 the Economical Geology of the Route of the Ashtabula and New Lisbon 

 Railroad, — Catalogue of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Ohio, by J. S. 

 Newberry, M. D., from the Author ; Amer. Jour. Sci. & Arts, Nov. 1860, 

 purchased. 



Dr. Prout presented, in the name of S. S. Lyon, Esq., a col- 

 lection of Devonian and Upper Silurian fossils from the Falls 

 of the Ohio and vicinity. 



December 18, 1860. 

 The President, Dr. Pkout, in the chair. 



Seven members present. 



Letters were read from L'Acad. Roy. des Sciences de Lisbonne, Mai, 

 I860, transmitting publications; and from Prof. Wm. Haidinger, dated 

 Vienna, Aug. 1, 1860. 



Donations to the library were received from the following 

 Societies : 



Bull. Soc. Imp. zool. d'Acclim. Paris, Oct. 1860, — Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phil., Oct. I860,— Mem. Acad. Real Sci. Lisboa, Classe Math Phys" 

 e N L, 2d Ser., T. I., Pt. 1, 1843,— Nov. Ser., T. I. p. 1-2, T. II. p. 1* 



185- -7, from the Royal Academy; Neuere Nachrichten iiber Meteonten 

 namentlich die von Bokkeveld, New Concord, Trenzano; die Meteoreisen 



von Nebraska, Brazos, Oregon, von \V. Haidinger, July, 1860, Neuere 



Un ersuch ungen iiber die Bestandtheile des Meteorsteines von Copland 

 schre.ben von R. WOhler an W. Haidinger, July, I860, — Die Calcutta 



