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Brookline; by Dr. S. Kneeland, Jr. A Florida lobster and two European gold- 

 finches; by James A. Cutting. A mud eel (Siren laceriina) ; by Dr. A. S. Bald- 

 win, of Jacksonville, Fla. A paper-like web, said to have been made by a fig 

 worm; by j\Iiss Lydia B. Felt. 



September 19. A complete skeleton of a young seal {Phoca vitulina) and a 

 skull of the same, 7 skulls of the harp seal {P. Groenlandica), the skull of a larg- 

 er species of seal, 4 teeth of tlie killer (grampus), some univalve shells {Buccinum), 

 and rocks containing fossils, all from Labrador; by Dr. Henry Bryant. A 

 young snake, and an egg containing an embryo snake (probably of the black 

 snake), from Scituate; by Dr. John Bacon. A large boa constrictor and 2 pipe 

 fishes {Syngnathus)] by James A. Cutting. 



BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE QUARTER ENDING SEPT. 30, 1860. 



Catalogue of Lepidopterous Insects at East India House. By Thomas Hors- 

 field, F. R. S., &c., and Fred. Moore. 8vo. Vol. 2. London, 1858-9. From 

 the Secretary of State of India. 



Bulletin of the Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanic Association. 8vo. 

 Pamph. Vol. 1. pp. 1-16. 1860. F^-om I. A. Lopham, Secretary. 



New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. Sept. 1860. 8vo. Pamph. pp. 

 609-624. From Dr. B. Dewier. 



Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 13th meeting. 8vo. Cambridge, 1860. From the Association. 



Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. Nos. 21, 22. New series. (Vol. XI. 

 Nos. 1, 2.) From Prof. H. D. Rogers. 



Report of the Commissioner of Patents for 1859. Agriculture. 8vo. Wash- 

 ington. From the Commissioner. 



A. Kolliker." Ueber die Beziehungen der Chorda dorsalis zur Bildung der 

 Wirbel der Selachier und einiger andern Fische. Svo. Pamph. Wiirzburg, 

 1860. From the Author. 



Annual of Scientific Discovery for 1850, 1851. 2 vols. 12mo. From Dr. 

 Samuel A. Green. 



The same for 1859. Boston. From Dr. A. A. Gould. 



Mining Magazine. Edited by Wm. P. Blake. Vol. 1. Nos. 1 to 6. Nov. 1859 

 to July, 1860. New Haven. From the Editor. 



Catalogue of Phgenogamous and Filicoid Plants. By Edward Tatnall. 8vo. 

 Pamph. Wilmington, Del., 1860. From the Author. 



Report on Supplying the City of Charlestown with Pure Water. By G. R. 

 Baldwin and C. L. Stevenson. Svo. Pamph. Boston, 1860. From Dr. A. 

 A. Hayes. 



Engraved portrait of John J. Audubon. From Dr. S. Kneeland^ Jr. 



Check list of the Shells of North America. Terrestrial Gasteropoda. By W. 

 G. Binney. 8vo. Pamph. 



Catalogue of the Terrestrial and Fluviatile Gasteropods inhabiting North 

 America. By W. G. Binney. Svo. Pamph. From the Author. 



J. Watts de Peyster. Life of Leonard Torstenson. 8v o. Poughkeepsie, 

 1855. 



