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Memoir of William Maclure. By S. G. Morton. 8vo. pam. 

 1841. 



Description of some new species of Organic Remains of the Cre- 

 taceous Group of the United States. By S. G. Morton. 8vo. pam. 

 1842. 



Some Remarks on the Ancient Peruvians, by S. G. Morton. 8vo. 

 pam. Philad. 1842. 



Descriptions of some new terrestrial and fluviatile Shells of 

 North America. By Tho. Say. 8vo. pam. 1840. 



From S. G. Morton. 



Descriptions of some new species of Quadrupeds inhabiting 

 North America. By J. J. Audubon and J. Bachman. 8vo. pam. 

 Philad. 1841. From the Authors. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Nos. 52 to 55. 8vo. 

 Lond. 1842. By Subscription. 



June 1, 1S42 



Regular meeting — the President in the Chair. 



The President announced that he had seen a letter 

 from Rev. Charles Brooks, now in Paris, stating that 

 Messrs. Milne Edwards, and Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Profes- 

 sors at the Garden of Plants, had expressed a wish to enter 

 upon a system of exchanges with this Society. Where- 

 upon Voted, that the proffer be accepted. 



On motion, it was Voted, that Dr. Jeffries Wyman, now 

 in England, be authorized to appear as the delegate of this 

 Society at the meeting of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, at its approaching session at Man- 

 chester. 



Dr. Abbot reported the addition to the Cabinet of the fol- 

 lowing mounted birds, viz. 



St. Domingo Cuckoo (Coccyzus Dominicus.) 

 Belted King-fisher (Alcedo Alcyon, Lin.) male. 

 Wilson's Sand-piper (Tringa Wilsonii, Nutt.) male. 

 Ash-colored Sandpiper (Tringa cinerea, Lin.) 



The President communicated, from Dr. Tho. Savage, of 



