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were taken, and the specimens now exhibited were a 

 second instalment. 



Dr. Cabot exhibited twenty-eight birds, which had been 

 recently mounted for the Society. Among them was a 

 remarkably fine pair of Argus pheasants, — Argus gigas. 



Dr. Cabot announced, on behalf of Dr. Storer, that a 

 specimen of the Nurse or Sleeper Shark, Somniosus brev- 

 ipinna, ten feet in length, had been recently caught at 

 Nahant. This is the second of that species, which has been 

 captured in Massachusetts Bay within a year. 



Dr. Henry Wheatland of Salem, was elected correspond- 

 ing member, and Mr. James West, of East Boston, an im- 

 mediate member of the Society. 



BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE QUARTER ENDING DECEMBER 31. 



Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. Vol. V. 

 Part 2. Lond. 1847. From the Entomological Society. 



Journal of the Indian Archipelago, and Eastern Asia. Nos. 

 1 to 5 of Vol. II., and Supplement to No. 6 of Vol. I. 8vo. 

 Singapore, 1847 - 8. From the Editors. 



Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France. Deuxieme 

 Serie. Tome quatrieme. Feuilles 53- 62. (17me Mai, 1847.) 

 Tome cinquieme, Feuilles 4-8. (22me Nov. 1847 — lOme 

 Janvier, 1848.) Fro7n the Societe Geologique. 



Annales de la Societe Linneenne de Lyons. Annees 1845-6. 

 8vo. Lyons, 1847. From the Societe Linneenne. 



Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, d'Agriculture 

 et d'Industrie. Tome IX. Annee 1846. 8vo. Lyons. From 

 the Societe Roy ale d' Agriculture. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History. No. X., for Oct. 

 1848. 2d series. Vol. II. Courtis Fund. 



Mollusques Vivantes et Fossiles. Par Alcide d' Orbigny. 

 Livraisons 1-7. 8vo. Paris, 1845. From the Author. 



Audubon and Bachman. Plates 141 - 145, of Viviparous 

 Quadrupeds of America. From Suhscrihers. 



PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. 7 APRIL, 1849. 



