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American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. XLiV. No. 1. 

 From Messrs. Silliman. 



Brevi Cenni sulla Condizione attuale delta Sardegna, autore G. 

 Michelotti. 8vo. pam. Torino. 1842. 



Saggio Orittografico sulla Classe dei Gasteropodi Fossili dei Ter- 

 reni Terziani del Piemonte. S. Bellardi e G. Michelotti. From 

 Signore Michelotti. 



Treatise on some of the Insects of New England which are inju- 

 rious to Vegetation. By T. Wm. Harris. From the Author. 



Selections from the Scientific Correspondence of Cadwallader 

 Golden. 8vo. pam. i843. From the Editor, Professor Asa Gray. 



Annals and Magazine of Nat. History, Nos. 66, 67. 8vo. Lond. 

 Courtis Fund. 



Reply to Dr. Hare's Objections relating to Whirlwind Storms, 

 by W. C. Redfield. 8vo. pam. 1842. From the Author. 



New Genessee Farmer, Vol. III. No. 12. 8vo. From H. Col- 

 man. 



Fifty-fifth Annual Report of the Regents of the University of N. 

 York. 8vo. pam. Albany. 1842. From G. B. Emerson. 



De Solariis in Supracretaceis Italise Stratis repertis. auct. J. Mich- 

 elotti. 4to. pam. 1841. From the Author. 



February I, 1843. 



Regular meeting — the President in the Chair. 



Mr. Bouve reported on a specimen of lead ore from the 

 Southampton lead mines which he had found to be carbon- 

 ate of lead. 



Dr. Gould exhibited a portfolio of British Zoophytes ele- 

 gantly preserved, which he had lately received from Dr. 

 Johnston of Berwick-upon-Tweed, accompanied with an 

 interesting letter. 



Among other facts, Dr. Johnston states that he has kept various 

 species of Mollusca alive for ten months, in a jar of sea water stop- 

 ped with a cork, without changing the water. He ascribes the 

 prolonged purity of the water to the presence of a tuft of Coral- 

 Una officinalis. A growth of Conferva had sprung up in the mean 



