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canal of osteo-dentine ; by Mr. Joseph L. Bates. Three teeth of the sperm whale ; 

 by Mr. Thomas M. Devens, of Charlestown, Mass. Skull of a beaver, from Lake 

 Superior; by Mr. J. S. Fay. Saw-billed humming-bird {Gryjms ncevius, Du- 

 montj, and the military manakin {Pipra miUiaris, Shaw); by Mr. Charles L. 

 Flint. 



March 7. Two birds of Paradise {Paradisea apoda, Linn.); by Mrs. Joseph 

 Coolidge. A woodpecker; by Mr. J. M. Forbes. Nests of the yellow-rumped 

 warbler (with egg), and the red-eyed and yellow-throated vireos; by Mr. H. 

 A. Purdie. Paradoxldes Harlani from St. Mary's Baj^, Newfoundland, and a 

 piece of birch tree gnawed by beavers ; by Mr. Smith McKay, of St. Johns. 

 Skulls of a homed owl, spotted tortoise, and brown bat, and thirteen teeth of the 

 alligator; by Dr. H. Bryant. Tooth of sperm whale; by Dr. B. S. Shaw. 

 Skull, sternum, and trachea of noddy, and large spider from the Falkland 

 Islands; by Dr. C. F. Winslow. Digestive apparatus and heart of the fox shark, 

 and of the gray shark, ( Odontaspis griseus) ; by Dr. D. H. Storer. Bituminous 

 earth from Brazil ; by Mr. A. M. Edwards, of New York. 



March 21. Skull, with lower jaw, of a very large hippopotamus ; by Messrs. 

 J. M. Barnard, J. N. Borland, \Vm. R. Lawrence, A. A. Lawrence, and James 

 Lawrence. Skeletons of opossum, squirrel, and turtle; twelve skulls of mam- 

 mals, nine of birds, four of turtles, two of fish, with the hyoid and ear bones of 

 man, and other bones; by Dr. S. Kneeland, Jr. Section of the trunk of a very 

 large and rapidh'-grown black Italian poplar, to show the annual rings, from 

 Lowell, Mass. ; by Mr. G. B. Emerson. 



BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE QUARTER ENDING MARCH 31, 1860. 



Catalogue of Astor Library. M-P. 8vo. New York, 1859. From the Li- 

 brarian. 



Phycologia Australica. Nos. 9 to 22. By W. H. Harvey, M. D., &c. 8vo. 

 London, 1858-9. From Dr. B. D. Greene. 



Description G^ologique et Min^ralogique du d^partement du Bas-Rhin. Par 

 M. A. Daubrde. 8vo. Strasbourg, 1852. From the Author. 



Notes on the Aurora of the 28th of August. By Prof. W. B. Rogers. 8vo. 

 Pamph. Edinburgh, 1860. From the Author. 



Saggio di Ditterologia Messicana, di L. Bellardi. Parte 1. 4to. Torino, 1859. 

 From the Author. 



Descriptions of New Species of Fossils. By J. H. McChesney. 8vo. Pamph. 

 Chicago, 1859. From the Author. 



Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. Vol. X. No. 2, for October, 1860. 

 From Prof. H. D. Rogers. 



Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. October, 1859. 8vo. 

 Pampn. From the American Antiquarian Society. 



Memoir on the Salubrity of the Isle of Pines. By Don J. de la Luz Hernan- 

 dez. 8vo. Pamph. Habana, 1857. From the Author. 



Address by Richard Owen, M. D., &c., to the British Association. 8vo. 

 Pamph. From the Author. 



