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lions to the chyle-corpuscles, and those, too, from which one 

 might justly infer, I think, that it is in one sense a lymphatic 

 gland, and like the thymus and thyroid glands in the fcetus, in 

 some way highly subservient in the preparation of the materials 

 for the formation of blood. 



The Secretary read a letter from the Secretary of the 

 Regents of the New York University, acknowledging the 

 donation of Numbers 17 and 18 of the current volume of 

 the Proceedings. 



A letter was read, addressed to the Librarian by William 

 Dudley, Esq., the Secretary of the Wisconsin Natural His- 

 tory Association, proposing a system of exchanges with the 

 Boston Society of Natural History. 



A letter was read from the Secretary of the Societe 

 Royale des Sciences de Liege, offering, in behalf of the 

 Society, the seven volumes of its memoirs already published, 

 and promising the volume at present going through the 

 press, and requesting the publications of this Society, in 

 return. 



Mr. Dudley's letter was referred to the Curator of Com- 

 parative Anatomy, with the request that he would reply to 

 the same. 



The letter from the Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, 

 was referred to the Publishing Committee. 



Dr. W. L Burnett presented a collection of fossil shells, 

 with fragments of bones, from the vicinity of Goldsborough, 

 N. C. 



Fifteen specimens of birds were announced as having 

 been presented by an unknown donor, one of them being a 

 specimen of Ibis Ordi, shot in Massachusetts. 



