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Stated Meeting, June 3, 1S45. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Fine specimen, in spirits, of Amblyopsis spelacns, Dekay? 

 (an eyeless fish) from the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. 

 Presented by Mr. Samuel W. Riggs, of New Orleans. 



The following fossils from the cretaceous and Eocene strata of 

 South Carolina, presented by Dr. R. W. Gibbes, of Co- 

 lumbia, S. C, viz. : Plagiostoma gregale, Morton ; Ba- 

 lanus peregrinus, Morton ; Scutella pileus-sinensis, Rave- 

 nel; S. macrophora, Rav.; and some teeth of a Squalus — 

 also a specimen of elastic sand-stone. 



Twenty-seven skins of the following species of South Aus- 

 tralian Birds, in fine order, presented by Mr. John Mor- 

 phett, of Adelaide, New Holland, through George R. Glid- 

 don, Esq. 



Falco cenchroides 1 Hors. & Vig.] Trichoglossus hacmatodus, Linn. 

 « berigora 1 « « concinnus, Shaw. 



Cracticus tibicen, Lath. » pusillus, Lath. 



Pachycephala pectoralis, Hors. & Vig. Nanodes venustus, Temm. (2 spec.) 

 Malurus cyaneus, Gm. " undulatus, Shaw. 



» leucopterus, Hors. & Vig. Meliphaga Novas Hollandioe, Lath. 



" " (young.) Porphyrio melanotus, Temm. 



« malachurus, Shaw. Ardea Novce Hollandiae, Lath. 



Plyctolophus galeritus. Platycercus young 



Calyptorhynchus Banksii, Lath. Pezoporus Novae Hollandias 1 Lath. 



" Cookii, Temm. Meliphaga young 



Platycercus Pennantii, Lath. Acanthiza 



" flaviventris, Temm. Podiceps 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Report of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of the 



State of South Carolina. 1S44. By M. Tuomey. From 



Dr. R. W. Gibbes. 

 Report of the commencement and progress of the Agricultural 



Survey of South Carolina for 1843. By Edmund Rufnn. 



From the same. 



