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Stated Meeting, February 4, 1845. 

 Vice President Morton in the Chair. 



DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



The following specimens of Ammonites from the Oxford 

 clay, near Chippenham, Worcestershire, England, were 

 presented by Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, viz : A. Elizabeths, 

 (3 specimens ;) A. Comptoni ; A. Gulielmi ; A. Koenigi ; and 

 A. Leachii. 



Specimen of Anthracite coal, containing a large seam of 

 mineralized charcoal, from Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. 

 From Mr. Erskine Hazard. 



Specimens of the alluvial sediment of the Nile, obtained from 

 three separate localities, as indicated in the letter from 

 Prof. Lepsius, read at the meeting of the 21st Jan. last, 

 From Prof. Ltfpsius. 



Also sand from the thermal spring at Okme, on the frontier of 

 the province of Butir-el-Hagar. From the same. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Variarum Naturae; or, The Naturalist's Miscellany. By 

 George Shaw, M.D. F.R.S. ; the figures by F. P. Nodder. 

 18 vols. 8vo. London, 1790. From J. P. Wetherill, Esq. 



Indian Antiquities, or dissertations relative to the geography, 

 form of government, commerce, literature, &c. of Hindostan. 

 By Thomas Maurice. 7 vols. 8vo. London. From the 

 same. 



Histoire physique, politique, et naturelie de Pile de Cuba : 

 par M. Ramon de la Sagra. Li vs. 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 

 46, 47,45, 49, 50 and 51. Presented by J. Price Wetherill, 

 S. G. Morton, A. L. Ehvyn, J. S. Phillips, Wm. S. Vaux 

 and Dr. Geo. C. Leib. 



The American Journal of Science and Arts. Vol. 48, No. 1. 

 Jan. 1S45. From the Editors. 



The following publications, in pamphlet form, from the Au- 

 thor, M. Edm. de Selys Longchamps, of Leige, viz : 



Note sur une nouvelle Mesange d'Europe. 



