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Dr. Shurtleff moved, that the Curators of IHerpetology 

 and Comparative Anatomy, have leave to expend upon their 

 departments such sums as may be necessary to fit them for 

 removal, under the same condition as was annexed to the 

 vote just passed, in regard to the department of Ornithology. 

 It vt^as so voted. 



It was voted, that the care of the removal of the Collec- 

 tion, in its various departments, and its re-arrangement in 

 the new hall, be committed to the Curators of each depart- 

 ment, in conjunction with Dr. Shurtleff. 



A fine specimen of Selenite from California, presented by 

 Mr. John Henderson, was committed to the Curator of 

 Mineralogy. 



The Vegetable specimens, presented by Dr. Savage, were 

 committed to the Curator of Botany. 



Aitgust 18, 1847. 



Dr. Storer, Vice President, in the Chair. 



Dr. J. Wyman read a communication from Dr. Thomas 

 S. Savage, describing the external character and habits of a 

 new species of Troglodytes (T. gorilla, Savage,) recently 

 discovered by Dr. S. in Empongwe, near the river Gaboon, 

 Africa. 



This animal is known to the natives under the name of Engeena, 

 and is much larger and more ferocious than the Chimpanzee. 

 Its height is above five feet ; but it is remarkable for the dispro- 

 portionate breadth of the shoulders, which is double that of the 

 Chimpanzee. The hair is coarse, and black, except in old indi- 

 viduals, when it becomes gray. The head is longer than that of 

 an ordinary man by two inches, and is remarkable for having a 

 crest of coarse hair over the sagittal suture, which meets at right 

 angles a second, extending over the upper part of the occiput, 



