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Geneve. Tome VIII. et Tome IX. lere partie. 4to. Geneve, 

 1841-42. From the Society. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, No 64, for Novem- 

 ber, 1842. 8vo. pain. London Courtis Fund. 



ADDITIONS TO THE CABINET. 



Specimens of Mammals, Fishes, Crustacea, Insects, &c. from 

 Martha's Vineyard. From L. M. Yale, M. D. 



A suite of specimens of Sulphur from the vicinity of Mount 

 Etna. From John Randall, M. D. 



Cranium of a Whale. From Capt, Wm. Cook of Provincetown. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Drs. Yale and Randall, 

 also to Capt. Cook, for their valuable donations. 



A box was also received from Dr. F. W. Cragin of Surinam, a 

 corresponding member of the Society, containing 100 bird skins, 

 skin of the Giant Armadillo, (Dasypus giganteus,) crania of a Ja- 

 guar and of a Cebus, bird's nests, shells, seeds, &c. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Dr. Cragin for this 

 valuable donation, also for repeated instances of liberality in mak- 

 ing additions to the Cabinet. 



Adjourned. 



T. BULFINCH, Rec. Sec. 



December 7 th, 1842. 

 The President in the Chair. 



Dr. Gould exhibited a Crustacean, from Long Island 

 Sound, presented to the Society by Dr. Yale, which he had 

 figured and determined to be the Squilla empusa, of Say. 



Three or four specimens of the same species had been recently 

 taken. 



He also read a description of a new species of Crustacean 

 of the "genus Pasithoe (Goodsir) viz. 



P. umbonata, Gould. Body oval, orbicular, hirsute, with a prom- 

 inent process arising from middle of back. Span of legs J inch, 

 it differs from the species described by Goodsir, in the circular 



