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filaments. In the genus Blennosperma, (see Torrey and Gray ; s 

 Flora of North America, Vol. II. p. 272,) these threads are of 

 great tenuity ; and in the genus Crocidium* they are broad and 

 flat. 



Dr. Wyman reported upon a specimen ot a marsupial 

 animal from New Holland. This he found to be a rare 

 animal, called by the natives the " Nombite," and is the 

 Myrmecob'uts fasciatus. Waterhouse, and is described and 

 figured in Trans. Zool. Sec. Lond. Vol. I. 



Dr. Storer exhibited a drawing of the Torpedo nobiliana, 

 Bonaparte, recently captured at Wellfleet, Cape Cod. 



He had been well aware of a fish on our coast called by the fish- 

 ermen the " cramp fish, 1 ' but having had no previous opportunity 

 to examine it, he had hitherto supposed it to be the Torpedo vul- 

 garis. This specimen agrees accurately with a description given 

 by Mr. Thompson, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural His- 

 tory, Vol. V. 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Transactions of the Linnsean Society of London, Vol. XVIII. 

 Part 4. 4to. 1841. London. 



Proceedings of the same, Nos. 11, 12. pp. 89 to 112. 8vo. Lon- 

 don. Linncean Society. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia, June and July, 1842. Nos. 15, 16, Vol. I. Acad, of N. S. 



Sull' Ernie, Osservazioni di Placido Portal da Palermo 8vo. 

 pam. Napoli, 1842. Author. 



Index plantarum quas Societas Imperial is Naturae Curiosorum 

 Mosquensis pro mutua Commutatione ofTert. 4to. pam. 1840. 

 Charles Cramer. 



ADDITIONS TO THE CABINET. 



Specimens of Fusus, Achatina, Parluta, Achatinella three spe- 

 cks, Neritina, Bulla and Eulima, all from the Sandwich Islands, 

 From James J. Jarves. 



Specimens of Paludina subcarinata. From J. G. Anthony of 

 Cincinnati. 



