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A letter to the President, from Rev. Thomas D. Allen, 

 was read, dated N. Cevney Rectory, Cirencester, England, 

 May 12th, requesting information respecting certain human 

 fossil bones reported to be in the cabinet of the Society. 



A circular letter was read announcing the partial destruc- 

 tion of the Library, Museum, &c., of the new Chicago Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, on the 6tli inst. 



A letter was read addressed to Prof. Joseph Henry of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, from Col. James Greer, dated Day- 

 ton, Ohio, May 8th, 1866, respecting his discovery of three 

 fossil fish, which he states he detected embodied in compact 

 sand in a narrow deep cut of the Sand " Bluffs " or Loess of 

 the Mississippi near Vicksburg, on the 19th March, 1866, 

 which he has preserved. He believes it to be the first dis- 

 covery of fossil fish in the Loess of the Mississippi. 



A letter was received from the Rev. George Belcourt, dated 

 Rustico, Prince Edward Island, May 10th, explaining and 

 giving specimen MS. pages of his Odjibowe-Francois vocabu- 

 lary, which, on motion, was referred to a special committee 

 consisting of Dr. Hayden, Mr. Lesley, and Mr. P. E. Chase. 



Donations for the Library were received from Dr. Roehrig, 

 the Prussian Academy, Upper Lausatian Society, German 

 Union of Physicians and Naturalists, Prince of Wied, London 

 Astronomical, Meteorological, and Chemical Societies, Dub- 

 lin Geological Society and Journal of Science, Essex Insti- 

 tute, Boston Society of Natural History, and American Anti- 

 quarian Society, Franklin Institute, Medical News and Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, Chicago Academy 

 of Sciences, Mr. Isaac Lea, and Mr. Paynter, of Media, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Copies of the Proceedings No. 75, were distributed to the 

 members present. 



A copy of the " Poissons Fossiles" published at Neuchatel, 

 1833 and 1843, was laid upon the table, received from Alex. 

 Agassiz, in exchange for xiii vols, of the Transactions of the 

 Society, forwarded to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



