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Ichthyology of South Carolina. By J. E. Holbrook, M. D. Nos. 1-10. Svo. 

 Charleston, S. C. 



Comparative Anatomy. By C. Th. von Siebold and H. Stannius. From the 

 German, with Notes and Additions, by W. I. Burnett, M. D. Vol. 1. Svo. 



1854. Received from the Courtis Fund. 



Life of Sir William Pepperell. By Usher Parsons, M. D. 12mo. Boston, 

 1855. 



Encyclopcedia Brittanica. Vol. M^II. 4to. Boston, 1855. 



History of Napoleon Bonaparte. By J. S. C. Abbot. 2 Vols. 8vo. New 

 York, 1855. 



History of Russia. Vol. H. By Walter K. Kelley. 12mo. London. Bohn's 

 Standard Library-. 1855. 



Works of Edmund Burke. Vol. E. Bohn's British Classics. 12mo. Lon- 

 don, 1855. 



Pictorial Handbook of London. Bohn's Illustrated Library. 12mo. London, 

 1854. 



Memoir of Rev. Sydney Smith. By Lady Holland. 2 Vols. 8vo. New 

 York, 1855. 



Story of the Campaign in Russia. By Major E. B. Hamley. 12mo. Boston, 



1855. Deposited by the Republican Institution. 



October 3, 1855. 

 The President in the Chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented, in the name of 

 the Cahfornia Academy of Natural Science, the April and 

 May numbers of the pubHshed Proceedings of that Society. 

 Though the Academy is a newly organized Society, its 

 contributions to the Natural History of California, as well 

 as to other branches of natural science, are already very 

 extensive. He referred particularly to the contributions of 

 Dr. William. O. Ay res, formerly Curator of Ichthyology in 

 this Society, and called attention especially to the descrip- 

 tion, by that gentleman, of a very peculiar fish (^Cebidich- 

 thys crista-galli) with a face resembling a monkey's, of 



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