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Naturforsciiende Verein in Brunn. Verhandlungen, Baud VIII, Heft 1-2, 

 2 pampfas. 8vo. 



Naturforschender Verein in Riga. Arbeiten, Heft, 3, 4. 1S70-71. 



Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft in Chemnitz. Dritter Bertrht, 

 186S-70. 8vo pamph. 



New England Historic-genealogical Societt. Register for Oct., 1871. 

 . New York Genealogical and Biographical Societt. Genealogical and 

 Biographical Record. Vols. 1, 2. 1870-71. 



Piitsikalisch-Medicinische Gesellschaft in Wurzurb. Verhandlungen 

 der Physikalisch Medicinische Gesellschaft in Wiirzurb, Herausgegebeu vou der 

 Redactions. Commission der Gesellschaft, Neve Folge, Band II. Heft 1-2. 8vo. 



Societt Vatjdaise des Sciences Naturelles in Lausanne. Bulletin, Vol. 

 x. No. 63. 8vo. pamph. 



Publishers. American Chemist. American Literary Gazette. American Nat- 

 uralist. Christian World. Gardener's Monthly. Gloucester Telegraph. Hard- 

 wicke's Science Gossip. Haverhill Gazette. Historical Magazine. Land and 

 Water. Lawrence American. Little Giant. Lynn Reporter. Lynn Transcript. 

 Medical and Surgical Reporter. Nation. Nature. Pavilion. Peabody Press. 

 Silliman's Journal. Quarritch's Catalogue. Salem Observer. 



The following donations to the Historical Department 

 were announced : — 



S. A. Chever, of Melrose, Engraving of the Pickman House on Essex Street as 

 it appeared in 1830. 

 T. J. Dreer, of Philadelphia, Fourteen engraved portraits of eminent Americans. 

 Thomas H. Johnson, Several engravings of Baptist ministers. 

 Charles Osgood, Picture of Capt. Billop's house at Bently, Staten Island. 



Mr. F. "W. Putnam exhibited a fine head of a male 

 American Buffalo or Bison (Bos Americanus) , which had 

 recently been received from David Augustus Chever, 

 Esq., of Denver City, Colorado, a donation to the muse- 

 um; and offered some remarks upon its habits and range. 

 The Buffalo formerly roamed over nearly the whole area 

 of the United States ; more recently it has been limited 

 to the prairies between the Missouri and the Eocky 

 Mountains, where it is seen in herds of several thousands, 

 blackening the plains as far as the eye can view ; with 

 the advance of civilization, it will become yet more re- 

 stricted, and finally it will retreat to the fastnesses of the 

 mountains, where it may for some years linger. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam occupied the greater part of the 



