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August -[6th, 1843. 

 Regular meeting — the President in the Chair. 



Dr. Binney presented, on behalf of Mr. J. G. Anthony, of 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, two specimens of Unio, viz. : U. Sayi, 

 and U. siliquoideus : also, on behalf of Mr. S. S. Halde- 

 man, "Indice d' Ittiologia Siciliana." 



Dr. Gould announced the arrival of Dr. F. W. Cragin 

 from Surinam, with numerous contributions to the Cabinet, 

 procured at the expense of much labor and money, and 

 proposed that suitable acknowledgments be made for the 

 same. 



Dr. Storer enforced the suggestion : and it was voted, 

 that the thanks of the Society be rendered to Dr. Cragin 

 for this and former instances of his liberality and coopera- 

 tion, and that the Corresponding Secretary communicate 

 fully to him our sense of obligation. 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Geological History of Manhattan, or New York Island. By 

 Issachar Cozzens, Jr. 8vo. N. Y. 1843. Author. 



Annals and Magazine of Nat. History. No. 75, for Aug. 1843. 

 8vo. London. Courtis Fund. 



Audubon's Quadrupeds of America. Nos. 1 to 15. Folio. 

 1843. Subscribers : — N. I. Bowditch, Geo. B. Emerson, Amos 

 A. Lawrence, Amos Binney, G. C. Shattuck, Jr., John A. 

 Lowell, George Parkman, Wm. Sturgis, F. C. Gray, J. J. Dix- 

 well. 



September 6th, 1S43. 



Regular meeting — Dr. C. T. Jackson, Vice-President, in 



the Chair. 



Dr. Gould stated, that since the publication on the cover 

 of the Journal, Vol. IV., No. 1, of the specific characters of 



