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ADDITIONS TO THE CABINET. 



A note was read from Dr. Bass, Librarian of the Boston Athenae- 

 um, accompanying a deposite, on behalf of that institution, of the 

 Cranium of an African Elephant, the under jaw of the Hippopota- 

 mus, and the horns of a Sicilian ox. 



Dr. Gould, on behalf of J. M. Batchelder, of Saco, Me., pre- 

 sented a vertebra and bone of the forearm of a whale, lately found 

 in the Saco river. They were probably recent. 



Dr. Gould laid on the table specimens of Helix, (Streptaxis) 

 Blandingii of Lea, and Nucula recurva, Conrad, from Africa, pre- 

 sented by Mr. George Perkins. 



ADDITIONS TO TIIE LIBRARY. 



D. H. Storer. Description of a New Species of Torpedo. 8vo. 

 Pam. New Haven. 1843. Author. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Nos. 73, 74, for 

 July. 8vo. Pam. London. 1843. Courtis Fund. 



Chambaud et Bory de St. Vincent. Nouvelle Flore du Pelo- 

 ponnese et des Cyclades. Folio. Paris. 1838. Audubon Fund. 



Reliquiae Baldwinianae : Selections from the Correspondence 

 of the late Wm. Baldwin. Compiled by Wm. Darlington. 12mo. 

 Philadelphia. 1843. Compiler. 



Notices of some works recently published on the Nomenclature 

 of Zoology. By A. A. Gould, M. D. 8vo. Pam. New Ha- 

 ven. 1843. Author. 



August 2?id, 1843. 



Regular meeting — the President in the Chair. 



The President announced to the Society the decease of 

 their associate and former Vice-President, the Rev. F. W. 

 P. Greenwood, as follows : — 



Gentlemen,— It is my painful duty to announce to the Society, 

 the decease of the Reverend Dr. Greenwood, one of its foundation 



