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The Corresponding Secretary read the following letters, 

 viz : — 



From the Academie E-oyale, &c., de Belgique, June 28 and 

 December 18, 1857 ; Royal Geographical Society, December 30, 

 1857 ; Naturhistorischer Verein, Bonn, January 11, 1858 ; 

 Zoologiscli-Botanischer Verein, Wien, March 15, 1858 ; Verein 

 fiir vaterliindische Naturkunde in Wurttemberg, May 31, 1858; 

 Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, June 15, 1858, in acknowl- 

 edgment of the receipt of the Society's publications ; Societe Im- 

 periale d' Agriculture, d'Histoire Naturelle, &c., de Lyon, Lyon, 

 April 2, 1858 ; Oberhessische Gesellschaft flir Natur-und-IIeil- 

 kunde, April 6, 1858 ; Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, 

 June 15, 1858 ; Societe Linneene de Lyon, July 2, 1858, pre- 

 senting their various publications ; H. Davis, M'Gregor, Iowa, 

 concerning certain specimens intended for the Society ; J. L. La- 

 porte, Bordeaux, November 14, 1858, proposing an exchange of 

 shells ; Royal Dublin Society, September 25, 1858, presenting 

 its Journal, and requesting an interchange of publications ; and 

 Edward S. Morse, Taunton, January 17, acknowledging his elec- 

 tion as Corresponding Member. 



The committee appointed to nominate a candidate for 

 the office of Curator of Entomology, rendered vacant by 

 the resignation of Mr. A. E. Agassiz, reported the name 

 of Mr. Samuel H. Scudder of Boston, and he was 

 elected. 



Messrs. James A. Cutting of Chelsea, Samuel H. 

 Gookin of Boston, John C. Comstock of Cambridge, and 

 Dennis Murray of Roxbury, were chosen Resident Mem- 

 bers. 



DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



January 5, 1859. A specimen of pilot fish, Nnucrates, from Provincetown, 

 Mass.; a squid, diftering from the common one, from Provincetovvn; some bi- 

 valve shells from the Gulf of St. Lawrence; a mummified fish of the eel family 

 from the abdominal cavity of a cod; and two large hooks taken from the livers. 



