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Dr. Kneeland reported, that the Card Catalogue of the 

 Library had been completed, and was now arranged alpha- 

 betically, and ready for use. 



The Chairman gave notice, that copies of the Constitu- 

 tion and By-Laws of the Society, with a list of the mem- 

 bers, had been printed, by an order of the Society, and 

 were now ready for distribution. 



The Curator of Geology announced the donation, from 

 George B. Emerson, Esq., of some five hundred speci- 

 mens, mostly fossils from the Paris Basin. The collection 

 is very perfect and valuable, many of the specimens only 

 wanting color, to have the appearance of recent specimens. 

 It was voted, that the Curator of Geology be requested 

 to express the thanks of the Society to Mr. Emerson for 

 this donation, and for the many other favors which he has 

 conferred upon the Society from, time to time. 



Mr. William D. Philbrick, of the Lawrence Scientific 

 School, and Mr. Edwin Abbot, of Boston, were elected 

 Resident Members. 



DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



July 25th. A specimen of Java Squirrel, Scinrus bicolor, and Glareola praiin- 

 cola, Pratincole; by Mr. E. P. Napper, of Manilla. Specimens of Minerals 

 and Fossils, among them a tooth of the Fossil American Horse ; by Mr. E. S. 

 Holden, of Stockton, Cal. A box of Minerals, among them specimens of Gar- 

 nets and Kyanite; by Mr. R. D. ]\Iussey, Jr., of Rockport. 



August 1st. A specimen of Colymbus glacialis, Great Northern Diver ; by Mr. 

 George B. Emerson. 



August 15th. A specimen of Laterite, from the Valley of the Sitang, Bur- 

 mah ; by Rev. Francis Mason. The Body of a large Boa Constrictor, recently on 

 exhibition in Boston; by Dr. J. V. C. Smith. A specimen of Thahssidroma 

 mkonii, Wilson's Petrel, shot off Scituate, Mass.; by Mr. E. B. Welch. A 

 specimen of Cinnabar Ore, said to contain 75 per cent, of IMercury ; by Capt. 

 Thomas Andrews. A portion of the trunk of a tree, having the extremity of a 

 branch growing into it; by Mr. L. M. Sargent. 



