136 



Dr. Storer read a letter from Dr. Andrew Nichols, of Dan- 

 vers, Mass., accompanying a specimen, which Dr. S. pro- 

 nounced to be the Bnfo lentiginosus of Shaw. 



Dr. N. has known them more than forty years, by their amative 

 croak, which he describes as " a shrill monotone, continued a sec- 

 ond or more, thrice as long and more trilling, in about the same 

 high, falsetto voice, as the Hylodes Pickeringii : " and adds, " there 

 is no sound in bog, pond, fen, forest or air, at all like it." Many 

 years ago he happened to see one in the act of uttering the well- 

 known sound. From that time to the present, though he has every 

 season heard them, he has never seen another singing. S. P. 

 Fowler, Esq., of Danvers, captured the specimen now sent, imme- 

 diately after seeing it sing. 



Mr. James Elliot Cabot was unanimously elected a mem- 

 ber of the Society. 



ADDITIONS TO THE CAEINET. 



From Rev. J. H. Linsley, of Stratford, Conn., through Dr. 

 Storer, — 



Emys terrapin, Leuciscus atromaculatus. 



Hydrargyra ornata, " pulchellus. 



Leuciscus chrysoleucas. " atronasus. 



" cornutus. Larvae of Lepidoptera. 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Figures of Molluscous Animals. By Mrs. E. Gray. 8vo. 

 London. Vol. I. Mrs. Gray. 



List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the 

 British Museum. 12mo. London. 1843. British Museum. 



Gualteri Charletoni Exercitationes de DifTerentiis et Nominibus 

 Animalium. Fol. 2d ed. Oxonise. 1677. John E. Gray, 

 Esq. 



Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. Auc- 

 tore A. P. De Candolle. Part VII. 8vo. 1838. Paris. 

 Dr. B. D. Greene. 



On motion of Dr. Gould, thanks were voted to Mr. and 

 Mrs. Gray for the above donations. 



