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of Hist. Nat. Society, [vol. ii. p. 71,) I had never received any 

 positive information of its being taken south of Cape Cod, until I 

 visited Gay Head, in August, 1846. While on a visit at that 

 place, I learned from Capt. Learned West, of Chilmark, and Mr. 

 Samuel Flanders, keeper of the light-house at Gay Head, that in 

 Chilmark, three miles from Gay Head, they had known at least 

 fifteen or twenty of this species to be taken by hook and line, and 

 also in seines, in the spring of the year, for several successive 

 years." 



Dr. Cabot remarked, that he had, last year, stated the 

 occurrence of the Arctic Tern and Roseate Tern, at Bev- 

 erly, Mass. He had this year procured specimens of both. 



Dr. J. B. S. Jackson stated that the Blue-fish, Temnodon 

 saltator, had been caught, in considerable abundance, at 

 Nahant. 



Dr. Gould stated, that a box, containing stalks of Maize, 

 fifteen feet in length, had been received from President 

 Malcom, of Georgetovi^n, Kentucky. 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Gray's Genera of Birds. Part 39, For July. London, 1847. 

 By purchase. 



J. J. Audubon and J. Bachman. Viviparous Quadrupeds of 

 North America. Vol.1. New York, 1847. From Subscribers. 



Silliman's American Journal of Science and Arts. 2d Series, 

 No. 10. For July, 1847. Editors. 



Magazine of Horticulture, &c. No. 150. For June, 1847. 

 Editor. 



Magazine of H^orticulture. Edited by C. M. Hovey. No. 152, 

 for August, 1847. 8vo. pamph. By exchange. 



Origin of the Grand Outline Figures of the Earth. By James 

 D. Dana. 8vo. pamph. New Haven, 1847. 



Geological Effects of the Earth's Cooling from a slate of Igne- 

 ous Fusion. By J. D. Dana. 8vo. pamph. New Haven, 1847. 

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