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announcing donations ; also, from the Prussian Natural 

 History Society, Bonn, March 1st, 1868 ; from the Royal 

 Zoologico-Botanical Society at Vienna, January, 1868 ; 

 from the Nassau Society of Natural Philosophy, at Wiesba- 

 den, January 8th, 1868; from the Batavian Academy at 

 Rotterdam, October 23d, 1867 ; from the Royal Library at 

 the Hague, October 23d, 1867 ; and from the Royal Academy 

 at Madrid, January 21st, 1868, severally acknowledging the 

 receipt of publications of this Society. 



Donations for the Library were announced, viz., from 

 Academies: the Hungarian, of Sciences, at Pesth ; the Royal, 

 of Sciences, at Berlin ; the Chicago, of Sciences ; and from 

 the Natural, of Sciences, of Philadelphia. From Societies : 

 the Imperial, of Naturalists, at Moscow ; Royal Danish, of 

 Sciences, at Copenhagen ; the Royal Northern, of Anti- 

 quaries, at Copenhagen ; the Royal Danish, at Havnia ; the 

 Offenbach am Main, of Physics ; the Prussian Natural His- 

 tory, at Bonn; the Royal Zoologico-Botanical, at Vienna; 

 the Helvetic, of Natural Sciences, at Rheinfelden ; the 

 Royal, of Victoria, at Melbourne ; the Geographical, of 

 Paris ; the Royal, of London ; the Meteorological, of Lon- 

 don ; the Geological, of London ; the Chemical, of London ; 

 the Geological and Polytechnic, of Leeds ; the Boston Natu- 

 ral History ; and the American Pomological. From the 

 Royal Institution of Great Britain. From Institutes : the 

 Peabody, of Baltimore ; the Essex, of Salem ; the Wilming- 

 ton, Delaware ; and the Franklin. From Dr. Arthur Von 

 Q^ttingen, of Dorpat; from M. Charles des Molines, of Bor- 

 deaux ; Charles Daubeny, M.D., of Oxford ; Martyn Paine, 

 M.D., of New York; Charles H. Hart, Philadelphia. From 

 the Freedmen's Bureau, and the publishers of Daily News. 



The death of James Buchanan, a member of this Society, 

 was announced as occurring in June, aged seventy-five years. 



Mr. Peale read the following communication on the manu- 

 facture and ornamentation of the pottery of the stone age. 



The manvifacture and use of pottery during that portion of 

 the stone age, which has been expressively called by A. Mor- 



