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Notices of New Species of Mosses from the Pacific Islands. By W. S. SuUi- 

 vunt. 8vo. Pampli. Cambridge, 1854. From Prof. Asa Gray. 



Histoire Naturelle des Mammifdres, avec des Figures originales, coloriees, 

 dessin<5es d'apres des Animaux vivans. Par M. GeofFroy Saint Hilaire et Frederic 

 Cuvier. 3 vols. Folio. Paris, 1824. From Hon. F. C. Gray. 



Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. Vol. X. Part 1. No. 

 37, for February, 1854. Deposited by the Repuhlican Institution. 



April 5, 1854. 



The President in the Chair. 



Dr. Hamel, of Russia, and many gentlemen, subscribers 

 to the fund for the purchase of the Greenfield Fossils, pre- 

 sent by invitation. 



In pursuance of a vote passed at the previous meeting, the 

 President nominated the following gentlemen as members of 

 the Building Committee, viz. : Prof. Henry D. Rogers, Mr. 

 Thomas T. Bouve, Dr. N. B. ShurtlefF, Mr. Francis Alger, 

 Mr. James M. Barnard ; and they w^ere accordingly elected. 



The Secretary read a letter from Dr. Kaup, of Darmstadt, 

 addressed to the President, offering for sale some newly 

 discovered fossil teeth and bones. 



The President announced the donation, from Hon. Fran- 

 cis C. Gray, of the valuable work of Frederic Cuvier on the 

 " Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes." 



Mr. Bouve made a full and minute report upon the 

 Greenfield Fossils, and remarked upon each of the larger 

 slabs in detail. The report was preceded by a lucid and 

 comprehensive sketch of the Science of Geology, particu- 

 larly in its bearings on the subject of Paloeontology, as it 

 exists at the present time. 



Descriptions of three New Species of Fish from Massa- 

 chusetts, viz. : Pomotis ohesus, Boleosoma fusiforme, and 



