1867.1 239 [Museum additious. 



Memorials of the Early Lives and Doings of Gi-eat Lawyers. By C. L. 

 Brjohtwell. 16mo. London, 1866. 



Life of Benjamin Silliman. By George P. Fisher. 2 vols. 8vo. New York, 

 1866. 



Life and Letters of John Winthrop. By Uobert C. Winthi'op. 8vo. Boston, 

 1867. 



The Open Polar Sea. By Dr. L I. Hayes. 8vo. New York, 1867. 



Deposited by the Republican Institution. 



ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM FKOM MAY 3, 1866, TO MAY 1, 1867. 



May 16, 1866. Negative and photographs of a species of Coscinodiscus, by 

 Dr. C. F. Crehore. Several Embryos of Nyctiardea Gardeni, from Canton, 

 Mass., by Mr. F. G. Sanborn. 



June 6. Albino muskrat from Long Point Marshes, Canada, by Dr. J. N. 

 Borland. Forty specimens of Fossils, forty cases of Phryganidan larvas, two' 

 hundred and twenty-five eggs, young and adult mollusca, and four insects, 

 from Decorah, Iowa, by 2ilr. H. Davis. Pupa of Libelhdn, from Boston, by Mr. 

 A. Chapman. One mammal, one specimen of OphiophoUs bdlis, twelve Crusta- 

 cea, seventeen reptiles, five insects, six wonus, and forty-six fish, by Mr. F. W. 

 Andrews. Forty specimens of Cryolite and other minerals, from Greenland, 

 by exchange with Mr. C. S. Hollowell. A collection of sixty-five specimens of 

 minerals from various localities, by Dr. C. T. Jackson. A specimen of Pcecil- 

 iclithys coernlea Storer, from Indianapolis, Ind., by Mr. W. B. Fletcher. A spec- 

 imen of Timarcha, from Egypt, by Mr. C. K. Stevens. 



June 20. Specimens of Nodular Copper Glance and Sulphuret of Cooper, 

 from Nova Scotia; Azurite, Malachite, EurbescLte, and vitreous Copper ore, from 

 San Domingo, by Dr. C. T. Jackson. An albatross caught off the Cape of 

 Good Hope ; an owl taken sixty miles from Cape Horn ; and specimens of Stilbite 

 and Mesotype from Lyttleton, New Zealand, by Capt. Taylor. A young lion, by 

 M. J. F. Wallboum. Specimens of Cryolite, Kyanite, Vermiculite and Pp-ophyl- 

 lite from the vicinity of Philadelphia, by Mr. J. M. Horner. A specimen of 

 JEschnn, by j\Ir. John JIaury. Two Calabar Beans, by Dr. A. A. Gould. Hang- 

 ing moss from the Southern States, by j\Ir. C. L. Brown. One hundred and 

 eighty specimens of coleoptera from Lower California, by Mr. S. Hubbard. A 

 Remora and an African Locust from the Nile River; sand from the Desert of 

 Sahara ; and a Homed Toad from the interior of Western Australia, by Dr. A. C. 

 Garratt. A specimen of Mesodesnia arctatum from ]\Ianchester beach, by Mr. 

 S. Goldsmith. A bird from Hart's Location, N. H., by Dr. S. A. Bemis. Three 

 echinoderms, seven fish, twelve birds, one hundred corals (twelve species), seven 

 specimens of seeds and fungi, one skull and skeleton (in part), six Bostrichidte, 

 a quoit-like stone used in a game, a joint of bamboo, ten specimens of native 

 Kapas, one specimen of Arr/yroxiphum, fruit of Cucurbitacea, forty miscella- 

 neous fruits, one hundred insects, and several hundred specimens of lavas from 

 the Hawaiian Islands; ten galls from Virginia City, Nevada; and twenty-five 

 epecimens of shells, by Mr. Wm. T. Brigham. 



October 3. Two specimens pf Pimjila lunator Fabr., and one of Tliyreus 

 Abbotti, from Boston, by Mr. T. T. Bouve. Larva of DeilepJula, from Boston, 

 by Capt. W. T. ^I. Ball. An egg contained within two shells, from Roxbury, by 

 ^Ir. T. J. Lee. Twenty-five fossil crabs, carboniferous? from Manhattan, Kan- 

 sas, by Mr. B. F. Mudge. Skull of an Esquimaux dog, trom Henley Harbor, 



