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Historian Naturalis des animaux sans vertebres, par J. B. 

 P. A. de Lamarck. 3 me - edition. Tome 3 m % 2d partie. 

 Purchased for the. Library. 



Stated Meeting, Oct. 14, 1845. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Numerous specimens of the following species of fossil fresh 

 water shells, from the shore of White Pond, Warren Co., 

 New Jersey. Presented by Joseph Leidy, M. D. 



Limneus elodes ; L. Galbanus ; Planorbis bicarinatus ; P. campanu- 

 latus ; P. parvus ; Paludina decisa ; Physa ancillaria ; Valvata 

 bicarinata ? Cyclas . 



Group of fossil sponges, &c, from the Crag, Suffolk, Eng- 

 land : being the original specimen from which the fignre 

 in vol. — of Loudon's Magazine of Natural History was 

 made. Presented by Richard C. Taylor, Esq. 



Leafy branch of Pin us Lambertianus Douglass, from the 

 mountains of St. Lucea, Upper California. From Mr. 

 Wm. Gambel. 



Dr. Leidy read the following notes on White Pond, 

 Warren Co., New Jersey: 



Notes taken on a visit toWhite Pond, in Warren Co., New Jersey. 

 By Joseph Leidy, M. D. 



In the course of a pedestrian tour, during the latter part of the 

 last summer, accompanied by R. H. Kern, Esq., an artist of this 

 city, while in the northern part of New Jersey, I visited White 

 Pond, in Warren Co. This pond or lake is situated one mile north 

 of the village of Marksboro, is about one mile in circumference, and 



