438 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1885. 



H. C. McCook. A collection of Cicada architecture. 



G. Giinther. A collection of insects, Buenos Ayres. 



C. Test. Balanus eburneus, Sea Isle City, N. J. 



J. B. English. Serpula dianthus, Barnegat Bay, N. J. 



G. J. Corson. Serpuloid worm burrows, Morris Cove, N. J. 



C. MiCormick. Xanthodes nitidula and Apus longicaudatus, Texas ; Gelasi- 



mus pugilator, Atlantic City, N. J.; Ixodes, sp.'? Texas. 

 E. Potts. Pectinatella. 



In \ imibrata (Fossil). — J.Ford. Orthis testudinaria, from New York 

 and Ohio. 



W. W". Jefferis. Casts of Venus, Miocene of James River, Va. : a collection 

 of Silurian and Carboniferous fossils from the west. 



J. Wilcox. A collection of fossils, partly chalcedonized, from Tampa Bay, 

 Fla. (Oligocene?) 



C. McCormick. Acidaspis tuberculatus, Bushkill, Pa.; Phaeops Logani, 

 Dingman's Ferry, Pa. « 



Chas. Wachsmuth. Slab containing Crinoids. Carboniferous of Marshall- 

 town, Iowa. 



Florida Land and Improvement Co. (J. J. Dunne). Conorbis, n. sp. (prin- 

 ceps), Oligocene, of Manatee River, Fla. 



Plants (Recent). — Prof. Thomas C. Porter, Lafayette College, Easton, 

 Pa. Uolosteum umbellatum L., from Harrisburg, Pa. 



Mrs. Maria L. Owen, Springfield, Mass. 7 species rare plants, from Nan- 

 tucket, Mass., and an abnormal form of Kalmia latifolia L., from Deer- 

 field, Mass. ^ 



Dr. J. W. Eckfeldt^hila. 160 species Lichens from Scandinavia, Austria, 

 Hawaian Islands and N. America, all named and mounted, of which 

 91 are new to the collection. 



Wm. M. Canby, Wilmington, Del. Isoetes melanospora Engelm., Stone 

 Mt., Ga., new to the collection; 388 species fiom Europe, 8. Africa and 

 Australia, of which 77 are new to the collection. 



Dr. Asa Gray, Cambridge, Mass. 217 species from China, Formosa, Siam, 

 S. Africa, Australia, S. America and United States, of which 76 are new 

 to us. 



Prof. N. L. Britton, Columbia College, N. Y. 17 species Cyperacese, from 

 Texas, of which 4 are new to us ; Also Montia Howellii, Washington 

 Territory. 



J. B. Ellis, Newfield, N. J. 14th and 15th centuries of N. American 

 Fungi. 



Thos. Meehan,- Phila. 365 species collected by him in 1883, in Western 

 Colorado, Utah, California and Nevada, of which 13 are new to the col- 

 lection ; 21 species, mostly cultivated exotics, of which 17 are new to us. 



Mrs Fanny E. Briggs, La Center, Washington Terr., through Thomas 

 Meehan. 51 species, collected by her in Washington Terr. 



California Academy of Natural Sciences, by Rev. E. L. Greene and Mrs. 

 Mary K. Curran, Curators. 24 species of rare California plants, of which 

 18 are new to the collection. 



Isaac C. Martindale, Camden, N. J. 5 species plants from western North 

 America, of w hich 3 are new to us. 



Isaac Burk, Philadelphia, Helianthus gig aniens L. Helianthus (doubtful 

 sp.). Senecio tomentosus, from Cape May, N. J., and 19 species from 

 ballast deposits at Kaighn's Point, mostly of South American origin, 

 of which 6 are new to the collection. 



Mis. Flora E. Haines, Bangor, Me. Petasites palmata Gr., from near 

 Bangor, Me. 



