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D. 13. A. 11. C. 3. 1. 9. 8. I. 2. V. 9. P. 14. 



Twenty-eight to thirty longitudinal rows of scales nfiay be 

 counted from the insertion of the ventrals to the dorsal line. 



Color, above and on the sides mottled with yellowish and dark 

 brown, deeper above. Traces of vertical bands broken up into 

 spots. Isolated scales, exhibiting greenish reflections ; at other 

 times, golden. A vertical black vitta beneath the eye ; another 

 from the eye to the snout. Iris, dark green. Inferior fins, red ; 

 upper ones margined with red. Length of specimen described, 

 7f of an inch. Head, from snout to posterior margin of oper- 

 culum, 1^ of an inch. 



Specimens collected by S. F. Baird. 



Dr. J. B. Cordeiro, of Boston, and Mr. Nathaniel H. 

 Bishop, of Medford, were chosen Resident Members. 



April 19, 1854. 

 The President in the Chair. 



The President gave notice that the next meeting would 

 be the regular Annual Meeting, for the election of officers, 

 and other business. 



Prof. H. D. Rogers and Dr. N. B. Shurdeff, were chosen 

 a Committee to nominate officers for the ensuing year. 



Mr. J. M. Barnard and Dr. Kneeland were chosen a 

 Committee to audit the accounts of the Treasurer. 



Prof. H. D. Rogers made some remarks upon the Cornwall 

 Iron Mines, in Lebanon County, Penn., which he had lately 

 visited. These mines have an almost unlimited source of 

 supply, having been worked for the last eighty years, and 

 still afford material to an increasing number of works. The 

 two principal sources of iron in the United States, are 

 hematite and the magnetic oxide of iron ; these mines affi)rd 

 another copious source in the form of the brown hydrated 

 oxide. 



