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drius pluvialis, Sterna argentea, Rallus virginianus, all 

 males ; Hemipalima multistriata, young male. Dr. Cabot 

 remarked that the H. muUistriata is extremely rare in Mas- 

 sachusetts, the specimen which he now presented, with two 

 others purchased at the same time in Boston Market, being 

 the first of the species he had ever seen here. Porphyrio 

 , male. This bird flew on board of a vessel six hun- 

 dred miles from land, in the latitude of the Cape de Verd 

 Islands. It lived for several days. It was among the 

 specimens recently given by Mr. Gassett. 



Mr. Burnett announced the donation from Dr. T. W. 

 Harris, of between six hundred and seven hundred valuable 

 insects of the order Coleoptera, from the interior of Europe. 



BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE QUARTER ENDING SEPTEMBER 30. 



Amer. Journal of Science and Arts. 2d series. No. 16. 

 July 1848. Exchange. 



Report to the Stockholders of the Dauphin and Susquehanna 

 Coal Company. 8vo. Pamph. Phil. 1848. From T. Buljincli. 



History of Framingham, 1640 to 1847. By W. Barry. 8vo. 

 Boston, 1847. From Francis Parkman. 



Annual Report of the Commissioners of Patents, for 1847. 

 8vo. Washington, 1848. From R. C. Wintlirop. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. No. 161 

 to 177. July, 1846, to June, 1847. 8vo. Lond. From the Zobl. 

 Society. 



Reports of the Council and Auditors of the Zoological Society 

 of London. April 1847. 8vo. Pamph. Lond. From the Zool. 

 Society. 



List of the Fellows, &c. of the Zoological Society of London. 

 June 1847. 8vo. Pamph. Lond. From the Society. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History. No. VII. for July, 

 1848. Courtis Fund. 



Ancient Sea-margins, as Memorials of Changes in the Rela- 

 tive Level of the Sea and Land. By Robert Chambers. 8vo. 

 Edinburgh, 1848. From Gould, Kendall ^ Lincoln. 



Principles of Zoology. By Louis Agassiz and Augustus A. 

 Gould. r2mo. Boston, 1848. From the Authors. 



