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It was voted that the thanks of the Society be pre- 

 sented to Dr. Reinhardt and to Mr. Stevens for this 

 valuable donation. 



The Committee appointed at the last meeting to take 

 into consideration a plan submitted for procuring better 

 accommodation for the Society's cabinet and library, 

 reported to recommend the appointment of a committee 

 to confer with such Societies, scientific, literary, and in- 

 dustrial, as may be deemed advisable, with power to 

 arrange some plan for joint action for the procurement 

 of land, funds, &c., and that said committee be urged to 

 prompt action, with the view of petitioning the present 

 legislature for aid. 



The Report was accepted ; and the same committee 

 was reappointed, with power to fill vacancies, and to 

 increase their number to seven. 



Mr. J. M. Barnard, from the committee on the memo- 

 rial to the legislature concerning the republication of Dr. 

 Harris's work on Insects, with illustrations, reported that 

 the memorial had been presented and strongly advocated, 

 with a good prospect of success as far as could be ascer- 

 tained. It would take two years to make the necessary 

 collections, and the labor of making these had been 

 freely assumed by many competent persons. The Re- 

 port was accepted, and the committee discharged. 



Mr. Charles Stodder exhibited 60 species of Diatoma- 

 cece^ of 12 genera, found in a small stream in West Rox- 

 bury by himself in July, 1858 ; of these, two were new 

 species of Stauroneis, which he called >S. Baconiana^ and 

 S. pellucida. 



The list is as follows : — 



Eunotia monodon, diodon, triodon, tetraodon, pentodon, dia- 

 dema, hexaglyphis, octodon, eneaodon, decaodoi), hendecaodon, 

 serrulata, prionotus ? t|uiiideuaria, bideiis, 15. 



