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Donations to the library were received as follows : 



Centralblatt fur die Gesuumte Lamlsknlt. von der K. K. Patr.-okonom. 

 Gesellsch., Prague, 1859-61 ; Com'e Rend. Soc. Imp. Geogr. Russie pour 

 l'Annee 1861, St. Petetsbourg, 1S62 ; Sitzungsb. der K. K. Akad. Wiss., 

 Heft IV., Wien, 1862 ; Proc. Rov. Soc, London, Vol. XL, No. 47, 18bl, 

 from the Society. Verhand. d Naturf. Gesellsch. Freiburg. 1862, from 

 the Society. List of Fellows of Roval Hort. Society, London ; Proc. Royal 

 Hort. Soc. London, Jan. 1862, Jrom.the Society. Wiirzburger ."Med. Zeit- 

 schrift der phys.-med. Gesellsch., Bd. III., Heft 1, 1862, from the Society. 



Dr. Engelmann gave the results of his calculations of baro- 

 metrical observations made by Dr. C. C. Parry to determine 

 the altitude of Pike's Peak and other elevations in Colorado 

 Territory. 



Dr. Shumard presented, from Mr. Eugene Riggin ot this 

 city, a small piece of iron supposed to be meteoric. 



He remarked that the members of the Academy might have seen re- 

 cently in the daily papers an account of the phenomena attending the 

 fall of this specimen in the city of St. Louis. It consists of remarka- 

 bly compact malleable iron, weighs 25,375 milligrammes, is of an irreg- 

 ular quadrangular shape, and measures one inch and a half in length, 

 about ten lines in width and about half an inch in thickness. It is 

 stated to have come from a southwestwardly direction, passing over 

 some houses on Chesnut street between Second and Third streets, strik- 

 ing the window of John Riggin, Esq., real estate broker, on the north 

 side of Chesnut street, shattering a large pane of glass about three feet 

 above the ground floor, and then bounding obliquely backwards several 

 feet. Mr. Eugene Riggin states that he was in the office at the time 

 of the fall, and immediately ran out and picked up the specimen. 



Capt. Cozzins, Chief of Police, and several other persons on the street, 

 witnessed the fall ; all of whom state, that, in its passage through the 

 air, they heard a noise resembling that produced by a minnie rifle ball, 

 or a body discharged from an air-gun. 



August 4, 1862. 

 The President, Dr. Engelmann, in the chair. 



Six members present. 



The following publications were received : 



Canad. Nat. & Geol., Vol. VII., No. 3, from the Nat. Hist. Soc. Proc. 

 Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. IX., May and July, 1862, from the Socie'y. 

 Atli della Soc. Acclim. e Agric, Palermo, Sicily, 1862, from the Society. 

 Descriptions of New Cretaceous Fossils from Texas, by B. F. Shumard ; 

 Guide to the Pronunciation of Scientific Terms; Notes sur le Parallehsme 

 entre les Depots Palajozoiques de l'Am. Sept. avec ceux de 1'Europe, par 

 Ed. de Verneuil, from Dr Shumard. Humboldt's Cosmos, English trans- 

 lation, in 5 vols., from Dr. Baumgarten. 



Dr. Tlilgard presented specimens of recent Spongise, Q//m- 

 drothecium SuUivanti, and skull of a fetal calf; and Mr. 

 Holmes, a specimen of Gneiss from New England. 



Dr. Hilgard presented a large series of mounted, micro- 

 scopic fresh-water Algce. 



