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valuable donation. It was also voted that these collec- 

 tions be henceforth known in the Society's halls as the 

 Harris Cabinet and the Harris Library, and be kept sepa- 

 rate from the general cabinet and library. 



Mr. Scutlder, Curator of Entomology, observed that among the 

 volumes was one containing all the rarer tracts of Say, most of 

 which are extremely scarce ; among them his New Harmony 

 pamphlets, one of which (on the Heteropterous Hemiptera of 

 North America) is probably the only copy in this country, if in- 

 deed it can be found anywhere else. There is a volume of colored 

 drawings by John Abbot, of the Lepidoptera and Coleoptera of 

 Georgia, presented to Dr. Harris by Edward Doubleday, Esq., of 

 England, containing all the originals of the drawings in "Abbot 

 and Smith's rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia," beside many 

 others yet unpublished. Most of the important European works 

 are here, — such as those of Fabricius, Herbst, Dejean, Boisduval, 

 Macquart, Wiedemann, Audinet-Serville, Sahlberg, Coquebert, 

 Schonherr, Gory and Percheron, Aube, Laporte and Gory, West- 

 wood, Knoch's " Neue Beytrage," and the " Wiener Verzeich- 

 niss ;" together with nearly complete sets of most of the pubhca- 

 tions of entomological societies and entomological periodicals. 

 Some of these are from the library of Mr. Say, and contain a few 

 of his notes ; many were once possessed by Prof. Peck, the prede- 

 cessor of Dr. Harris, and one is from the library of Dru Drury ; 

 and nearly all are enriched by copious notes of Dr. Harris. 



The President gave an account of the Gorilla collection 

 of Mr. Du Chaillu, in New York, made during a resi- 

 dence of three or four years in the country of this largest 

 anthropoid ape, which includes about ten degrees on 

 each side of the equator on the west coast of Africa, 



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Though affording nothing new in regard to the skeleton, the 

 collection was interesting from containing an extensive series 

 from the quite young to the adult animal. Though the females 

 are said to be the most numerous, ten out of fourteen specimens 

 examined have been males. The cranial capacity ranges in the 

 males from 24 to 34|- cubic inches, the average being 28 or 29 • 



