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names. He instanced Melolontha v^iJgaris^ (Linn.) Cos- 

 sus ligmperda, (Fabr.) and Ophiura longicauda^ (Lyman.) 



Dr. John Evans, of Washington, D. C, was chosen a 

 Corresponding Member, and Messrs. A. E. Verrill, E. S. 

 Morse, and J. L. Foley, of Cambridge ; Edward S. 

 Ritchie, of Brookline ; William Edwards, of South Na- 

 tick ; and J. Brooks Taft, of Boston ; Resident Members. 



DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



October 5. Thirty microscopic slides from E. Samuels. Clicetodon from the 

 Siindwich Islands; by Dr. C. F. Winslow. Large specimen of stalactite from 

 the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky; by Alvin Adams, Esq. 



October 19. Fishes from Sandwich Islands, among them Goniobatis meleagris, 

 (Ag.); two specimens of the crustacean genus Eanina, and a cuttle fish, from 

 the same locality; by Dr. C. F. Winslow. Odontaspis (jriseus, from Massachu- 

 setts Bay; by Dr. D. H. Storer. Two snakes and a skink, locality unknown; 

 by Mr. James Walker, of Charlestown. 



November 2. Specimen of Sigillaria ohovata ? from the Joggins, Nova Scotia; 

 by Prof. W. B. Rogers. Bottle of sand thrown up from the volcano of Fuego in 

 Central America in 1855, and a piece of vegetable wax from that region ; by Mr. 

 J. M. Barnard. The heart of a Boa constrictor, from South America ; by Mr. J. 

 W. P. Jenks. VespertlUo pruinosus, Massachusetts ; by C. J. Sprague. 



November 16. A Tttraodon from the Sandwich Islands; by Dr. C. F. Winslow. 

 Radiates, Ascidians, and other marine specimens, from Eastport, Me.; by Lieut. 

 ^Miller. Spermophihis tridecimlineaius, and Erismatura rubida, from Illinois; by 

 Mr. Samuel Clark, of Chicago. 



December 7. Lophlus jnscaiorius, from Massachusetts Bay; by J. A. Cutting. 

 An Ostracion, and shells from the Sandwich Islands; a California quail, and mass 

 of adipocire from the Pacific Ocean; by Dr. C. F. Winslow. An upper molar 

 tooth of the Asiatic elephant, and a bottle of snakes and insects from the Cape 

 of Good Hope; by Mr. James Walker, of Charlestown. 



December 21. Half section of a diseased tooth of a sperm whale ; by Mr. George 

 H. Folger. Several specimens of snakes, Anablcps, and Didelphis, from Suri- 

 nam ; by Dr. C. H. Hildreth, of Gloucester. Small crustacean from Sandwich 

 Islands ; by Dr. C. F. Winslow. Three specimens of Siredon, from vicinity of 

 Great Salt Lake ; by Mr. John H. Brazer. 



