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September 5th. Fossil Shells, from the Tertiarj' Strata of Wilmington, N. C. ; 

 by Dr. C. T. Jackson. A specimen of Ring-necked Snake; by Mr. C. P. 

 Bronson. 



September 19th. Five hundred specimens of Fossils, from the Paris Basin; 

 by Mr. George B. Emerson. A large mass of Crystalline Sulphate of Lime; 

 by Sprague, Soule, & Co. 



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Principes d'Osteologie Comparde. Par Eichard Owen. 8vo. Paris, 1855. 

 From the Author. 



Geological Map of Russia. By C. Kutorga. 1852. From the Author. 



Geological Map of Wisconsin. By I. A. Lapham. New York, 1855. From 

 the Author. 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Vol. VII. 4to. Washington, 1855. 

 From the Smithsonian Institution. 



Patent Office Report. Mechanical. Congressional Document. 8vo. 2 vols. 



1854. From Hon. Charles Sumner. 



Description of a New Mollusk from the Red Sandstone, near Pottsville, Pa. 

 By Isaac Lea. 8vo. Pamph. Philadelphia, 1855. From the Author. 



Examination of Prof. Agassiz's Sketch of the Natural Provinces of the Ani- 

 mal World, and their relation to the different Types of Mankind. By J. Bach- 

 man, D. D. 8vo. Pamph. Charleston, 1855. 



Examination of the Characteristics of Genera and Species, as applicable to 

 the Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race. By J. Bachman, D. D. 8vo. 

 Pamph. Charleston, 1855. From the Author. 



New York Journal of Medicine, for July and September, 1855. 8vo. New 

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New York Medical Times. Vol. IV. Nos. 10 and 11. New York, 1855. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Vol. VII. No. 9. 8vo. 

 Philadelphia, 1855. 



Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural Sciences. Vol. I. pp. 11 - 

 46. 8vo. 1855. 



Verhandlungen der Russisch-Kaiserlicher Mineralogischen Gesellschaft zu St. 

 Petersburg. 8vo. St. Petersburg, 1854. 



Nachrichten von der Georg- Augusts Universitiit und der Konigl. Gesellschaft 

 der Wissenschaften zu Gcittingen. 12mo. 1854. Gottingen. 



Bulletin de la Societe de Geographic. 4rieme sdrie. Tome IX. 8vo. Paris, 

 1855. 



Silliman's American Journal of Sciences and Art. No. 59, for September, 



1855. 8vo. New Haven. Received in Exchange. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History. No. 91, for July, and No. 92, for 

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Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. Part 46. 8vo. London. 



