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globular, hyaline, slightly tinged with yellowish, and somewhat 

 larger than the animal itself. 



Several specimens of this species were obtained by dredging 

 in Broad Sound, Boston Bay, at the depth of from four to seven 

 fathoms on a sandy bottom. 



Philine FORMOSA. P. tcsta minuta, quadrato-globosa, antice 

 subtruncata, alba, nitida, subopaca, postice incrassata, striis 

 volventibus, inaequidistantibus, excavato-punctatis, vel interdum 

 undulatis, sculpta ; apice arete et profunde perforate ; columella 

 sinuata, late et tenuiter callo induta ; labro postice crenulato ; 

 apertura patentissima. Long. 18; lat. 14 poll. Hah. Coast of 

 New England, north of Cape Cod. 



This species is nearly allied to P. scufulum^ Loven, but differs 

 from it in its form, and its umbilicus ; and it has no inflection 

 of the outer lip. The figure of P. scutulum^ given by Sowerby, 

 will not apply to the species here described. 



Several specimens were taken from fishes caught on the 

 " middle bank," in seventeen fathoms ; in thirty fathoms off Cape 

 Ann, and in deep water off the coast of Maine. 



Dr. Gould presented the first number of the ''Journal 

 de Conchyliologie," published in Paris, and devoted to 

 descriptions of new Shells by M. Petit de la Saussaye. The 

 Editor desired to exchange it for the Society's " Proceed- 

 ings." Referred to the Library Committee. 



He announced the donation from Mr. Lesquereux of 

 specimens of Algse, collected mostly in the neighborhood of 

 Boston ; a collection of American mosses was also promised 

 by the same gentleman. 



Dr. Gould read extracts from a letter from Mr. Charles Lyell, 

 in which he alluded to the great advantages the hippopotamus, 

 recently arrived in England, had conferred on the Zoological 

 Society of London, by freeing it from all pecuniary embarrass- 

 ments. 



Dr. Gould also brought a fine specimen of Pterogorgia 

 setacea, from the West Indies, presented by Mr. C. O. 

 Boutelle, for which the thanks of the Society were voted. 



