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inquiries made with regard to a specimen of deer with 

 palmated horns, to which the attention of the Society was 

 called at a previous meeting.* Dr. Bachman considered 

 them merely variations from the normal condition, and 

 that the individual was a specimen of Census Virginianus. 

 The following gentlemen were elected to corresponding 

 membership : 



George Lieb, of Philadelphia. 



Spencer F. Baird, of Carlisle, Penn. 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Michaux N. American Sylva. Edited by Thos. Nuttall. Parts 

 I. and II. of Vol. IV. 8vo. Phil. 1842. 



Schembri, Antonio ; Quadro Geografico Ornitologico, ossia 

 Quadro comparativo della Ornitologia di Malta, Sicilia, &c. Pre- 

 sented by the Author. 



April 3, 1844. 

 Dr. C. T. Jackson, Vice President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Binney mentioned the fact that the piers of the 

 bridge erected at E. Boston, about nine years since, were 

 so far eroded by marine animals as to have become reduced 

 to one fourth the original size, and suggested that the sub- 

 ject was deserving the attention of the Society. 



Dr. Gould remarked, that the animal by which the ero- 

 sion was effected was the Limnoria terebrans, noticed in the 

 Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, where the 

 best method for guarding against its depredations is pointed 

 out. 



DONATION TO THE CABINET. 



Skin of a Wolverene, taken on the Fish river, near Houlton, 

 Maine, from Major Townsend, U. S. Army. 



A seed vessel of from Dr. J. B. S. Jackson. 



*Jan. 17th, 1844. 



