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No. 71, from Smithsonian Institution, Oct. 22, 1864. 



No. 72 and List, from University of Toronto, March 23, 1865. 



No. 72 and List, from Amherst College, March 21, 1865. 



No. 72 and List, from Harvard College, March 20, 1865. 



No. 72 and List, from Massachusetts Hist. Society, March 23, 1865. 



No. 72 and List, from Boston Library, March 21, 1865. 



No. 72 and List, from Lyceum N. H., New York, March 20, 1865. 



No. 72 and List, from George Bancroft, April 13, 1865. 



No. 72 and List, from Yale College, April 12, 1865. 



No. 72 and List, from Boston Academy, April 14, 1865. 



No. 72 and List, from Astor Library, April 18, 1865. 



No. 72 and List, from Maryland Historical Society, April 5, 1865. 



No. 72 and List, from Chicago Historical Society, March 30, 1865. 



No. 72 and List, from Dr. C. M. Wetherill, April 18, 1865. 



A photograph of Dr. Augustus A. Gould was presented 

 as a donation for the Album. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Obser- 

 vatory at Cadiz, the Academy San Fernando at Madrid, the 

 Geological Survey of Holland, the Museum at Cambridge, 

 the Franklin Institute, the Historical Society at Philadel- 

 phia, and the Mercantile Library Association at San Fran- 

 cisco. 



Prof. Cresson communicated his observations of the effects 

 of the late destructive tornado, or series of tornadoes, which 

 swept with such velocity and violence across Eastern Penn- 

 sylvania and New Jersey, in the afternoon of Thursday, the 

 11th instant, Avhere he saw them along the line of railroad 

 between HackettstOAvn and Hoboken. 



All the trees seem to have been overthrown in a direction con- 

 trary to the course of the storm-wind, viz., with their heads towards 

 the west. Mr. Trego described the storm as he knew of it in Penn- 

 sylvania, north of Philadelphia, and as far as New Hope, on the 

 Delaware. Mr. Price described its ravages further west, accom- 

 panied as it was with much hail. Mr. Haldeman described it on 

 the Susquehanna River, where it was also a hail-storm, and gave 

 evidence to show that it originated on this side of the Alleghany 

 Mountains. It seems to have traversed the whole space from Lan- 



