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The transfer was made with the consent of that gentleman. 

 The thanks of the Society were voted for this valuable 

 donation ; and it was voted, that Col. Perkins be noti- 

 fied of the value the Society attach to the Collection, and 

 of their sense of the interest he has so constantly mani- 

 fested in institutions for objects of public benefit. 



Dr. W. E. Deering, of Augusta, Ga., was elected a Cor- 

 responding member of the Society. 



October 20, 1852. 

 The President in the Chair. 



The President called the attention of the Society to 

 some casts of immense eggs which he had recently received 

 from Paris. During the past year these eggs had been 

 brought to France by Capt. Abadie, from the Island of 

 Madagascar, and deposited at the Garden of Plants, from 

 which Institution the casts had been obtained. Two entire 

 eggs and one broken one were carried to France. These 

 are casts of two eggs, one ovoid in shape, the other more 

 elliptical ; the former measures thirteen inches in its long 

 diameter, and a little more than eight in its lateral diame- 

 ter, and has an internal capacity of nine quarts, equal to 

 about six Ostrich eggs ; the latter was about twelve inches 

 in length and eight in width ; from the broken specimen 

 the thickness of the shell was found to be one tenth of an 

 inch. 



These large eggs were known as long ago as 1831, and 

 have been occasionally seen by travellers since then, many 

 of whom are of opinion that the bird to which they belong 



