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Letters were received from the Historical Institute, and 

 from the Geological Society of France, accompanied by the 

 Journals of those Societies, in exchange for ours. 



A beautiful series of Unios and fresh water shells was 

 presented by S. S. Haldeman, Esq., of Pennsylvania. 



From E. S. Perkins, Esq. two African hangingbirds' nests. 



DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



John Pickering, Esq., presented- Vandelle's Viridarium Lusita- 

 nicum ; a revision and new arrangement of a very old Flora of 

 Grisley, which was first published in 1661, and at the time of its 

 publication in 1789 was the only Flora of Portugal. 



History of British Starfishes. By Edward Forbes. 8vo. Lond. 

 1841. From Edward Doubleday, Esq. 



Manual of British Algae, by Hon. Wm. Henry Harvey. 8vo. 

 Lond. 1841. From the Author. 



Nos. 1 to 4 of the Phytologist. 



Edward Newman, Esq., presented, through the same, Newman's 

 Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects, and Nos. 4 to 7 of 

 Newman's " Entomologist." 



The following gentlemen, nominated by the Council, were 

 elected honorary members of the Society. 



Edward Spach, Aide Naturaliste au Museum d'Histoire Natu- 

 relle. 



Prof. D. F. L. von Schlectendal, P. D., Halle. 



Prof. Aug. Pyr. De Candolle. Geneva. 



Asa Gray, M. D. of New York. 



Professor John Torrey of New York. 



Roderick Impey Murchison, Esq., London. 



J. O. Westwood, F. L. S. London. 



Heinrich Friedrich Link, Director of the Royal Gardens, Berlin. 



Wm. Sharp McLeay, Esq., F. L. S. London. 



John George Children, F. R. S. London. 



Edmund Griffith, Esq. F. R. S. London. 



John James Audubon. New York. 



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