PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. II. JULY AND AUG., 1845. No. 10. 



Stated Meeting, July 1, 1S45. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



A large collection of fossils from the carboniferous limestone 



of Montgomery Co., Ohio. Presented by Julius S. Taylor, 



M. D., of Carrollton, Ohio. 

 Casts of the teeth of Dorudon serratus, Gibbes. From Dr. 



R. W. Gibbes, of Columbia, S. C. 

 A collection of Fuci, Corallia, &c, from the Gulf Stream and 



West India coast. From Peter A. Browne, Esq. 

 Also from the same donor, a dried specimen of the fruit of 



Madura aurantiaca. 



Letters were read, 



From R. W. Gibbes, M. D., of Columbia, S. C, dated June 

 28, 1845, returning acknowledgments for his election as a 

 Correspondent of the Academy. 



From the Secretary of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 

 dated Edinburgh, May 14, 1845, acknowledging the receipt 

 of several numbers of the Academy's Proceedings. 



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