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Prof. W. B. Rogers exhibited a specimen of Aluminium. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced the reception 

 of the following letters, viz : — 



From the Royal Geographical Society, June 1, 1855, accom- 

 panying the twenty-fourth volume of the Journal of that Society : — 

 from the Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux, Dec. 20, 1854, the 

 Academic Imperiale de Bordeaux, Dec. 26, 1854, and the 

 Academic Royale de Stockholm, May 31, 1855, returning 

 thanks for copies of the Journal and Proceedings ; — and from 

 the Akademie der Wissenschaften at Vienna, May 1, 1855, pre- 

 senting copies of its publications. 



November 7, 1855. 

 The President in the Chair. 



A letter, addressed to the President by Sir John Richard- 

 son, inclosing a copy of a communication from W. J. 

 Christie to Sir George Simpson, dated Fort Polly, Swan 

 River District, January 28, 1855, was read to the Society; 

 the following is an extract : — 



" With reference to the portion of Sir John Richardson's 

 letter to you regarding a search to be made for the remains of 

 the Mastodon, I have the honor of informing you, that agreeably 

 to the above request, I procured in October last an Indian guide, 

 and proceeded to Shell River, where the bones of that animal 

 were found. The shoulder bones referred to by Sir John 

 Richardson, together with other bones and the teetJi, were found 

 in the river by the Indians several years since, and were taken 

 out and laid on the bank. Owing to some superstitious fear, the 

 Indians, at the time of their discovery, would not bring them 

 here ; but two years afterwards they were sent for, and the 



