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DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



October 3, 1860. Several Hindoo skulls; skulls and separated cranial bones 

 for anatomical study; and a finely shaped skull from the battle-field of Waterloo, 

 on whose exterior were traced the lines of demarcation of the phrenological 

 faculties by Spurzheim himself; by Dr. B. J. Jeffries. A specimen of coral 

 {Madrepora spicifera) from the East Indies; by Dr. S. Kneeland, Jr. 



October 17. The teeth of a ray (Zygobaiis); by Dr. E. W. Blake. A hog- 

 nosed snake {Ileterodon platyrhinos), killed in Milton; by Master Fred. A. Gil- 

 more. 



November 7. A young salmon from Sebago Lake; by ^Ir. Walter M. Brackett. 

 Eggs of loons and other marine birds, a large crab, large barnacles from the skin 

 of whales, and specimens of Mallotus vilhsus and Gasterosteus Cuvieri, from Lab- 

 rador; by Dr. H. Bryant. The following helminths, — Tricocephalus dispar, from 

 a human subject in Vienna; Trichina spii-alis, from pectoral muscles of man; 

 Filance^ immature, encysted in gluteal muscles of mandrill, which died in men- 

 agerie; Cephcdocotylean worms from large intestine of Odontaspis griseus, unde- 

 scribed; Agamonema capsularia, encysted in a coiled condition in the peritoneum 

 of Lophius Americanus ; Eustrongylus gigas, loose in peritoneal cavity of Phoca 

 vitulina ; Ascarides from stomach of P. vitulina ; worms from pericardial surface 

 of heart of P. vitulina ; by Dr. J. C. White. Tcenice from intestine of loon ; by 

 Mr. Edes. Dibothrium latum, lOi feet long, from an Irishman in America; by 

 Mr. N. C. Page. Skeleton of a Canada lynx ; by Mr. F. L. Lee. The body of a 

 female seal (P. vitulina), and a young flamingo; by Mr. J. A. Cutting. Verte- 

 brae of blue fish; by Dr. S. Kneeland, Jr. 



November 21. A halcyonoid polyp of the family Gorgonidce, from the Bay of 

 Fundy; by Mr. Lemuel Moore. A myriapod (/Wws) from Memphremagog lake ; 

 by Mr. C. A. Browne. 



Decembers. 241 species of shells of the Indo-Pacific fauna; by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. A collection of minerals, chiefly ores of iron, from Nova 

 Scotia; by Mr. George W. Busteed. A large stuffed head of a moose, with fine 

 pair of horns ; by Drs. Dui-kee, Bacon, and Sprague, and Messrs. Binuey, Boss, 

 and Rogers. 



December 19. Embryonic ray from San Francisco, Cal., probably Paia oculata 

 (Girard); by Dr. C. F. Winslow. Cast of the head of a Flathead Indian; by 

 Dr. S. Durkee. A cuttle fish { Onychoteuthis) from the Mediteranean; by Mr. 

 Lot Day. A sea swallow {Dactylopterus volitans, Cuv.) from New Bedford; by 

 Mr. W. H. Taylor. Specimens of Chinese caterpillar {Sphoeria Sinensis) -, by Mr. 

 William F. Gragg. 



BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE QUARTER ENDING DEC. 31, 1860. 



Observations on the Genus Unio. By Isaac Lea, LL.D. Vol. VIII. Parti. 

 4to. Philadelphia. From the Author. 



Conspectus Generum. Avium. Auctore C. L. Bonaparte. Tom. 2. 8vo. 

 Lugduni Batavorun, 1857. From Br. H. Bryant. 



