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elaborate examinations and analyses already made. The plan 

 being also favored by the President, Prof. H. D. Rogers, Prof. 

 Wyman, and others, on motion of Dr. Gould, it was voted, — 



That a committer of seven be chosen, to be nominated by the 

 Chair at the next meeting, composed of members proficient 

 in Chemistry and the several branches of Natural History, and 

 to be called the " Cochituate Committee," whose duty shall be to 

 make observations in their several departments, for a prolonged 

 period, on the physical constitution of the Cochituate Basin, to 

 cooperate in a general plan, and to report from time to time as 

 they may deem expedient. 



DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



January 3d. A specimen of petrified Guano, very rich in Phosphate of Lime; 

 by Dr. C. T. Jackson. Specimens of Picus martius, Great Black Woodpecker; 

 Otus viilffai-is, Long-eared Owl; O.hrachyotus, Short-eared Owl; Gallinula chlo- 

 ropiis, common Gallinule; Scolopax rusiicola, European Woodcock; Tinnunculus 



alaudaruis, Kestril; and Ortygometra , Rail; by Dr. F. J. Bumstead. A 



young Boa Constrictor, and a specimen of Botaurus Untiginosus, American Bit- 

 tern ; by Mr. E. Samuels. A specimen of Jlergus serrator, Red-breasted Mergan- 

 ser; by Mr. Caleb Loring, Jr. Mus leticojms, White-footed Mouse ; ArvicolaPennsyl- 

 rnmca, common Field Mouse; Condylura cristata, Star-nosed Mole, and Vesper- 

 tilio noctivagans, Silver-haked Bat ; by Dr. Henry Bryant. A specimen of Fungia 

 tenuis, Coral; by Mi*. Charles L. Andrews. 



January 17th. Specimens of Cannel Coal, from Torbanehill, Scotland, known 

 as the Boghead Gas Coal; and Cannel Coal, from the Straitsville Mines, Ohio; 

 by Dr. A. A. Hayes. A skeleton of the female Cohaya ajjerea, Guinea Pig; by 

 Mr. Samuels. A collection of Fossils from the cliii's of Pianura, a post-town 

 on the top of the Appennines; by Dr. H. R. Storer. A specimen of Tet^-aodon 

 turgidus, Blowfish ; by Mr. L. Isl. Sargent, Jr. 



February 7th. A series of specimens of Coal and Iron Ore, from Straitsville, 

 Ohio ; by Dr. A. A. Hayes. A specimen of Zygcena subarcuata, Hammer-headed 

 Shark; by Dr. B. S. Shaw. 



February' 21st. A specimen of Accipenser brev'wostns, Short-nosed Sturgeon, 

 caught just within Boston harbor; by Dr. Silas Durkee. A specimen of Sebastes 

 Norvegicus, Norway Haddock ; by Jlr. Samuels. A specimen of Bubo Virgin- 

 ianus, Great Horned Owl; by Dr. Samuel Cabot, Jr. A specimen of Sala- 

 mandra venenosa, Violet-colored Salamander; by Mr. George H. Marden. A 

 specimen of E7nys angtdata ; by Mr. C. J. Sprague. A specimen of Emys 

 insculpta, and one of £. picta; by Dr. J. N. Borland. Four Hindoo Skulls; by 

 Dr. Fi-ancis Minot. A specimen of Asbestos, from Chester, Vt. ; by Mr. John G. 

 Long. 



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