64 [May, 1844. 



Stated Meeting, May 21, 1844. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Skin of Diomedea exulans, and the head and beak of a Pro- 

 cellaria. From Mr. Samuel Grant, Jr., through Dr. 

 Carson. 

 The following shells were presented by Mr. Peterson: 



Helix Barbadensis, Lam., from Barbadoes; Donax meroe, 

 Lam., and Murexcervicornis, from the Indian Ocean; and 

 Cyprcea aperta, Sw., from Cape of Good Hope. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



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Memoire sur le Lac Mceris, presente et lu a la Societe Egyp- 

 tienne le 5 Juillet, 1S42. Par Linant de Bellefonds, Pre- 

 sident de la Societe Egyptienne, &c. Alexandria: 1843. 

 From the Author. 



Catalogue of the Library of the American Philosophical 

 Society. From the Society. 



Dr. Morton exhibited the skull of a Hottentot, sent him by 

 Mr. T. Watson, (now resident near the Cape of Good Hope,) 

 through Dr. Gavin Watson, of this city. This is a female 

 head, remarkable for having the Negro characteristics very 

 strongly expressed. The face is prominent, the nose perfectly 

 flat, the head narrow and elongated, but the whole structure 

 rather thin and delicate. This cranium pertained to a woman 

 of about twenty years of age ; the facial angle gives 75 de- 

 grees ; but the internal capacity, or size of the brain, mea- 

 sures but sixty-eight cubic inches, which, Dr. Morton re- 

 marked, was as small an adult brain (with a single exception, 

 and this, also, a native African) as he had ever met with. 

 Dr. M. has shown the mean internal capacity of the Negro 

 cranium to be 85 cubic inches ;"* so that this Hottentot skull 

 presents a measurement of no less than 17 cubic inches below 

 the average. 



* See Proceedings, Vol. I., page 135. 



