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Letters from Ezra Weston and George Ditson, accom- 

 panying donations, were also read. 



T}ie following gentlemen were elected members : Lemuel 

 Stanwood ; Franklin H. Story, Jun. ; Henry G. Andrews ; 

 George B. Blake ; Thomas C. Amory, Jun. ; Waldo Flint ; 

 George H. Kuhn ; and Joseph Hobbins, M. D. 



DONATIONS TO THE CABINET. 



Large specimen of Mytilus from Monterey, California. By 

 J. E. Teschemacher. 



Numerous bottles of reptiles and other animals, from Surinam. 

 By Dr. F. W. Cragin., of Surinam. 



An engraved portrait, in a frame, of Sacaze-Gaston, a self- 

 taught botanist, of the department of Basses-Pyrenees, France. 

 By Ezra Weston. 



June 18, 1845. 

 The President in the Chair. 



Dr. Samuel Cabot, Jun., remarked that among the birds 

 of Surinam lately received from Dr. Cragin, he had noticed, 



Himantopus nigrocollis, The black-backed stilt, 

 Anhinga Caj'olinensis, The black-bellied darter, 

 which are also natives of the United States. 



He had also recently procured in the market Scolopax 

 noveboracensis, the read -breasted snipe, in its winter plu- 

 mage, in which it very rarely occurs in this region. 



Dr. Jeffries Wyman mentioned that among the specimens 

 presented by Dr. Cragin, there were two of monstrosities. 

 He proposed that these should be deposited with the Society 

 for Medical Improvement, whose collection of monstrosities, 



