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Transactions, entitled "A Catalogue of North American Pa- 

 laeozoic Brachiopoda" which was referred to the Committee 

 on Publication. 



Dr. Engelmann exhibited some beautiful colored drawings 

 of Nelumbium luteum, executed by Mr. Rcetter for Prof. Cas- 

 pary of Koenigsberg, at j>resent occupied with a monography 

 of Nymphwaceaz. 



November 21, 1864. 

 The President in the chair. 



A letter was read from the Illinois State Horticultural 

 Society, Nov. 19, 18G4, and from the I. Reg. Istituto Venetu 

 di Scienze, Lettere ed Arte, Venice, Oct. 3, 18G4, acknowl- 

 edging receipt of the Transactions of the Academy. 



The Corresponding Secretary laid upon the table the Amer. 

 Jour, of Science & Arts, No. 114, Nov., 1864, New Haven, 

 and the Bulletin de la Societe Imp. zoologique d'Acclimata- 

 tion, Paris, No. 9, Sept., 1864, from the Society. 



Dr. Engelmann presented a conic pouch or sac of vegetable 

 tissue, being the sheath of the flowers of Mcuiicaria saccifera, 

 a Palm of the Isthmus of Panama. 



George P. Herthel, Jr., Esq., of St. Louis, was elected an 

 Associate Member. 



December 5, 1864. 

 The President in the chair. 



Seven members present. 



The Corresponding Secretary laid upon the table the Ca- 

 nadian Naturalist & Geol., and Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Mont- 

 real, Vol. I., No. 5, Oct., 1864, from the Society. 



Mr. G. C. Broadhead presented a collection of fresh-water 

 shells from Cass and Jackson Counties, in Missouri ; also, 

 specimens of Sandstones and Limestones from the Upper 

 Coal Measures in the same locality. 



Dr. B. F. Shumard presented a paper for publication enti- 

 tled "The Lead Mining Region of Southeastern Missouri, 

 containing a Notice of most of the important Mines, with 

 Statistics of their yield since the period of their discovery." 

 Referred to a Committee.* 



William Dickinson, M.D., of St. Louis, was elected an 

 Associate Member. 



* This paper, with the consent of the Publishing Committee, has been 

 withdrawn by the Author for additions, and will appear in the next No. 

 of the Transactions. 



