J8G'] 241 [Miispum luUlitiiiiis. 



tlmm, by Mr. Luther Hills. A hybrid between Black and Jhillard Ducks, and 

 a iMalhinl Duck, from Lake St. Clair, by Major Lewis Cabot. A Hawk, from 

 Canton, Mass., by Dr. S. Cabot. Wool from the Fleece of a Cotswold Ham, 

 from Santa Barbara, Cal. : a fossil Crab and Drawings of a Trachijpitriis, from 

 Necah Bay, Washington Territory, by Jlr. .James G. Swan. Humerus of In- 

 dian, from the banks of the Merrimac, by Dr. W. M. Ogden. 



Januarrie. A Bat, from Boston, by Miss Carrie Poree. Six specimens of 

 fossil Calamtfes, from Pictou, N. S., by Mi". Joseph Wagner. A specimen of 

 Bazanite, by Mr. Wm. Munroe. 



February 6. Five specimens of fish from Lake Winnipisiogee, by Mr. G. D. 

 Oxnard. Fungus on a Caterpillar from the Philippine Islands; and a specimen 

 of Diapheromerafemoraia, from Cohasset, by Dr. S. Kneeland. A Collection 

 of fourteen thousand, two hundred and eighty-four specimens of shells, by be- 

 quest of Miss Sarah Pickering Pratt. A Wasp's nest and two nests of Birds 

 from North Wrentham, by Mr. Luther Hills. A shell from the Orchilla Islands. 

 by Mr. DavidBaker. Fragment of a grape-vine eaten by Termik'g, with a sec- 

 tion, from Salem, Mass. ; and three specimens of Faiderbia Bauhinia Guerin, 

 from West Africa, by Mr. S. H. Scudder. \ slab and piece of shell marble, 

 from Hudson River Marble Quarries, Greenport, Columbia Co., N. Y., by Jlr. 

 George B. Towle. A specimen of Coal worn by attrition to a globular form, bv 

 Rev. I. H. Holton. 



^larch 6. Six specimens of minerals, from various localities, Ijy ]\Ir. T. T. 

 Bouve. A Sponge, taken from a depth of thirty fathoms, oft" Cape Cod, by 

 Capt. N. E. Atwood. Three specimens of Guarauii, from Brazil, by Dr. B. K. 

 Cotting. Seven specimens of Lithocolletis rqfinicella Clem., from Beverly, by 

 Mr. Kdw. Burgess. Radius of an albatross, from Cape Town, Africa, by Mr. 

 G. R. Hemming. Sixteen fossils, from Dacotah; a Pipe Stone, from Pipe Stone 

 Quarry; and a specimen of Kaoline (manufactured) from Chester Co., Penn., 

 by Dr. F. V. Ilayden. Casts of the jaws 'of TUanothcrium Proulil and Jh'ffa- 

 lonyx Jeffersonii, by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. A 

 specimen of Polycistina, from deep sea soundings, north of Cuba, by Itlr. C. G. 

 Bush. Three hundred specimens of fossils, from the Bad Lands, Nebraska, by 

 purchase. 



^larch 20. Thirty-five specimens of fossils, from the Western States; and a 

 Gar-Pike, from Lake j\Iichigan, by Mr. C. (i. Bush. Egg-shell, found inside of 

 the -white of the egg of a domestic fowl, by Mr. E. L. Sturtevant. A lizard, 

 from Calcutta, by ]\Ir. R. C. Greenleaf. Fify-two rests and one hundred and 

 twenty-one eggs, from I\Iassachusetts, by Mr. B. P. Mann. 



April 4. Five osteological specimens, a skeleton of a pony, a model of a 

 horse, and three botanical specimens, by Mr. Francis Brooks. Two pairs of elk 

 horns, from California, by Jlr. .Joseph Ballard. 



April 17. A long-tailed duck, from the vicinity of Boston, by Mr. H. L. 

 Lawrence. Two flying squincls, from Hardwich, Mass., by Mr. Sam. Mixter. 

 A specimen of Certhiola Cabolii Baird from Yucatan, by Dr. S. Cabot. A Limax 

 from E. Somerville, by Mr. W. L. Robinson. An arrow-head and stock from 

 Peter's Falls, W. Anr'over, and glass from the Portland fire, by Mr. F. G. San- 

 born. A piece of the heart of a spruce, by Mr. Haines. Calamites from the 

 Pudding Stone of Taunton, by Dr. .1. Vv'yman. A sphere of vegetable frao-- 

 ments from a pond in Lincoln, by Dr. E. P. Colby. Twenty-five specimens of 

 fossil mollusca from the Greensand of New Jersey, by Dr. C. T. Jackson. S.x 

 moUusca and four seeds from Ceylon, by Dr. S. Kneeland. A rose-breasteii 

 Merganser from Ipswich River, by ]iurchnse. 



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