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acknowledging receipt of Proceedings and presenting its own 

 publications ; — Academia di Bologna, May 2G, 1855, presenting 

 its publications and other valuable books ; — George B. Blake, 

 Esq., in reply to the vote of thanks passed at the meeting of the 

 Society April 2. 



June 4, 1856. 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING. 



Dr. Chas. T. Jackson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Committee appointed to audit the accounts of 

 the Treasurer, reported that they had made their exam- 

 ination, and found the accounts correctly cast and prop- 

 erly vouched. The report was accepted. 



The Committee appointed at the last meeting to 

 nominate a candidate for the office of President, were 

 further instructed to report the names of two or more 

 persons as candidates for this office, at an adjourned 

 meeting; and it was also voted that the meeting, when 

 adjourned, should be adjourned to the time of the next 

 regular meeting, to hear and act upon the report of said 

 Committee. 



A seventh letter was read from Mr. E. Samuels, giving 

 a list of objects collected in California since his last 

 account. 



Dr. Brewer called the Society's attention to the fact 

 that Mr. Samuels's letter mentions that he had obtained 

 two specimens of California Red-tailed Hawks, shot on 

 their nests, with their eggs. 



PROCEEDINGS B. S.N. H. VOL. V. 25 SEPTEMBER, 1856. 



