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adatto. Opera Premiata in Concorso dalla Accademia tlelle Scienza doll' Institute* 

 di Bologna e scritter'dal Cavaliere Francesco del Giudice. Bologna. 1852. Royal 

 8vo. 



Societa Reale i>i Napoli; Accademia delle Sciexze Fisiche e Mate- 

 MATTCHK. Atti dell' Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiehe. Vols. III. 

 IV. X ipoli, ISM-US-O'J. 4to pamph. Renediconto, Anno VI, VII, VIII, 1SG7-S-9. 

 4to pamph. 



St. Gallische Gesellschaft in St. Gallex. Bericht. Vereius jahres, 1SG9- 

 70. 1 vol. Svo. St. Gallen. 1870. 



Vermont Historical Society. Vindication of Vol. I of the Collections from 

 the '-Attacks of the X. Y. Historical Magazine " by Hiland Hall. Svo pamph. 

 Montpelier, 1871. 



Zoologisciie Gesellschaft Frankfurt a. M. Zoologische Garten, xn 

 Jahrg. Xos. 1-0. Jan-June, 1871. U pamphlets. Svo. 



Publishers. American Literary Gazette. Gardener's Monthly. Gloucester 

 Telegraph. Haverhill Gazette. Lawrence American. Little Giant. Lynn Repor- 

 ter. Lynn Transcript. Medical and Surgical Reporter. Nation. Nature. Pea- 

 hody Press. Shoe and Leather Journal. The Academy. 



The following donations to cabinets were reported. 



A. B. C. F. M. Papers relating to X. A. Indian affairs formerly belonging to 

 Mr. John Pickering of Salem. Signatures of the members of the Board attending 

 the meeting held in Salem, Oct.. 1871. 



Bolles, E. C. A picture of Brooklyn Orphan Asylum. 



Constant. C, of Smyrna. Xo. I. Moule antique trouve. sur la route entre 

 Smyrna et Boudja. Xo. II. Teie cassee statuette antique trouvee dansl'ilede 

 Rhodes. Xo. III. Lampe on porte-lumiere antique trouva dans 1' ile de Rhodes. 

 Xo. IV. Petit vase on urne cineraira trouvi dans 1' ile de Rhodes. 



NICHOLS, W. F., Cypress from Smyrna. Myrobalon from India. Unleavened 

 Bread of the Armenians from Smyrna. Oak for tanning .from Smyrna. A piece 

 of Mosaic work from Pompeii. A piece of Lava from Smyrna. Views of Interno 

 Cappella Palatina Palermo. Chiostro Morreale. Messina dai Cappriccini. 



RAT mum). B. C, of Beverly. Pincers used by Major John Conant of Beverly, 

 who flourished about one hundred years ago. He made the fisherman's heavy 

 boots. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam gave an account of the Mammoth 

 Cave and its inhabitants, with special reference to the fishes 

 of the cave and of other subterranean waters.* He called 

 attention to the varied conditions under which fishes ex- 

 ist, and especially to the structure and position of the 

 eye in different representatives of the class. He then 

 compared the blind fishes of the Mammoth Cave with 

 those of the Cuban Caves and with the blind catfishes 



* Mr. Putnam's remarks will be given in detail in the American Naturalist for 

 January, 1872, and u ill be illustrated by plates on which the various species of the 

 family including the blindfishes of the .Mammoth Cave will he represented. 



