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inches, taken in Charles River, in the town of Wayland ; 

 this species, called in some localities the mud pickerel, is 

 found in muddy-bottomed streams, especially where they 

 empty into rivers, and is rarer than the long or shovel- 

 nosed species. 



Mr. Putnam observed that the large size of these fishes 

 proves that the Esox fasciatus (Dekay) is not the young 

 of Esox reticulatus (Lesueur) ; the latter is most fre- 

 quently found in ponds. 



Dr. A. Snowden Piggott, of Baltimore, was elected a 

 Corresponding Member of the Society ; and Mr. John 

 Homans, Jr., of Boston, Resident Member. 



DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



July 6, 1859. Thirty species of Crustacea, from the Bahama Islands; by Dr. 

 Henr}^ Bryant. Twenty-four slides of microscopic objects; by E. Samuels. 

 Male, female, nest, and four eggs of Ammodromus HensMoi, Aud., from Berlin, 

 Mass. ; by Mr. E. S. Wheeler. A star-nosed mole, from Koxbury ; by JMr. J. 

 Champney. A sand-hill crane, Grus Canadensis ; raven, Corvus carnivorus ; 

 three-toed woodpecker, Picoides arcticus; pine grosbeak, Pinicola Canadensis^ 

 male and female; four crossbills, Curvirostra Americana^ two males and two 

 females; a golden-winged woodpecker, Colaptes auratus, and longspur, Pleciro- 

 phanes lajyponicus ; from Portage Lake, Lake Superior; by Dr. S. Kneeland, Jr. 

 Two skulls of the loggerhead turtle, from the Bahamas; by Dr. Henry Bryant. 



July 20, 1859. Fishes, an ascidian, and a crab, from the Sandwich Islands; 

 by Dr. C. F. Wiuslow. A star-fish, euryale, from Boston harbor ; by Mr. Kilby 

 Page. 



September 7, 1859. Fishes, reptiles, insects, shells, and minerals, from Mo- 

 hawk, N. y. ; by Dr. James Lewis and Mr. T. J. Whittemore. Twenty-one species 

 of Crustacea, from the Sandwich Islands ; by Prof. Agassiz. Crustacea, from Cape 

 Cod ; by Mr. Albert Ordway. Twenty-three species of laud shells, from the vi- 

 cinity of Bombay; by Dr. Simeon ShurtlefF. Thirty species of fishes, from the 

 Sandwich Islands; by Prof. Agassiz. A male CorydaUs coi'nutus, from. Roxbury; 

 by Louis Lehmann. A caterpillar of a sphinx moth, covered with pupa cases of 

 ichneumon fly, from Jamaica Plain; and a parafiine candle; by Dr. S. Knee- 

 land, Jr. Male and female yellow-shouldered sparrow, Coiurniculus passerinus^ 

 with egg; and two caterpillars; from Berlin, Mass.; by Mr. E. S. Wheeler. 



September 21, 1859. Specimens of short-nosed pickerel from Wayland, Mass.; 

 by Mr. C. J. Sprague. A white-tailed remora, Echeneis albicauda, from Holmes's 

 Hole; by Mr. J. S. Fay. Fishes, reptiles, insects, and crawfishes, from Kansas; 

 by Dr. Thos. H. Webb. A humming-bird, Trochilus colubris, killed by the 



