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A letter from James Brown, Esq., accompanying a box of 

 British moths presented by Mrs. B. F. Foster, was read. 



DONATIONS TO THE CABINET. 



A box of British moths. Collected and presented by Mrs. B. 

 F. Foster, of Chelsea, England, through James Brown, Esq. 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Hooker, W. J. Species Filicum. Parts i. ii. iii. 8vo. 

 London. Courtis Fund. 



Lyell, Ch. Travels in North America. 2 vols. 12mo. 

 From the same. 



Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 2 parts. 

 From the Entomol. Society. 



Catalogue of the Shells of the United States, in the Cabinet of 

 C. M. Wheatley. 12mo pamphlet. From the Author. 



October 15, 1845. 



D. H. Storer, M. D., Vice President, in the Chair. 



Dr. S. Cabot, Jun., stated that a specimen of Silvia agilis, 

 Wilson, a bird not known to have been met with before in 

 this State, had been shot at Brookhne. 



The second part of the fifth volume of the Society's Journal 

 was announced to have been published, and copies were 

 placed on the table. 



A list of the species of the short-tailed crabs, Dec^poda 

 BRACHYURA, in the coliection made by Mr. Bartlett on the South- 

 ern shores of the peninsula of Florida, between Cape Florida and 

 Charlotte Harbor, and the adjacent keys, as prepared by Dr. 



