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DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Remarks relating to the New Brunswick Tornado, by W. C. 

 Redfield. New York, 1841. 



Report of the Geological Survey of the State of New York. 

 1841. 



The Fifty-fourth Annual Report of the Regents of the Univer- 

 sity of New York. From W. C. Redfield. 



Historia Naturalis de Serpentibus, Libri duo. Joannes Jonstonus. 

 fol. Ileilbronnae, 1757. Hon. Jno. Pickering. 



Monograph of the genus Sciurus, with descriptions of New Spe- 

 cies existing in North America. By Rev. J. Bachman. 8vo. Lond. 

 1839. From the Author. 



Natural System of Botany, by John Lindley. 8vo. Lond. 1836. 



Botanical Miscellanies, 8vo. 3. Lond. 1830. From the Audu- 

 bon Fund. 



Yotes of thanks were presented to Messrs. Redfield and 

 Pickering for their donations of books. 



Messrs. S. J. May, Chs. Stodder, J. B. Fenno, and Omen 

 S. Keith were elected members of the Society. 

 Adjourned, 



F. A. EDDY, Rec. Sec. 



Jane 2, 1841. 



The President in the Chair. 



Seventeen members present. 



Mr. Teschemacher exhibited specimens of an undescribed 

 species of Rafflesia sent from Manilla by Padre Manuel 

 Blanco, and promised the Society a paper upon it at the 

 next meeting. 



He also exhibited specimens of perfectly silicified wood from 

 the same place. The vessels and structure of the wood were very 

 distinct. In some parts the wood was opalized, and in others 

 changed into volcanic glass. 



Dr. C. T. Jackson, from the Committee on Geology, read 

 a written report on specimens of lava presented to the Soci- 



