PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 

 Vol. II. MARCH AND APRIL, 1S45. No. 8. 



Stated Meeting, March 4, 1845. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



The following valuable works were presented by Mr. 



William Hembel. 



The Silurian system, founded on geological researches in the 

 counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, &c, with descriptions 

 of the coal fields and overlying formations. By Roderick 

 Impey Murchison, F. R. S. In two parts. 4to. pp. 768. 

 London, 1839. 



Etudes sur les Glaciers : par L. Agassiz. 8vo. Neuchatel, 

 1840 : with a folio atlas of plates. 



A general system of the vegetable kingdom, &c. By Sir 

 Charles Linne. Translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, &c, 

 by William Turton, M. D. 2 vols., Svo. pp. 1851. Lon- 

 don, 1806. 



Les Commentaires de M. P. Andre Matthiole, medicin 

 Sienois, sur les six livres de la matiere medicinale de Pe- 

 dacius Dioscoride : traduits de Latin en Francois, par An- 

 toine du Pinet. Folio. Lyons, 1 680. 



General Zoology, or systematic natural history. By George 

 Shaw, M.D., F. R. S. Vol. 3d, Amphibia, pp. 615. Lon- 

 don, 1802 : and vol. IX. Aves, pp. 547. London, 1815. 



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