the casts in the ^luseum of Neufchatel, some corals and moUusca, two " Sa,, 

 of Fristis, and antlers of American deer, by Mr. James M. Barnard; specimens 

 of ovster shells, barnacles, species of Gorgonia and minute Crustacea removed 

 from the bottoms of our iron-clad ships-of-war at Port Royal, October, 1863, by 

 Mr. F. W. Merryman; suite of land shells of Williamstown, Mass., Achatinellcs 

 from Sandwich Islands, shells from Wisconsin and elsewhere, and a chameleon's 

 skeleton from Spain, by Mr. S. H. Scudder; a lot of buttei-flies of New England 

 and cranium of Porcupine, by Mr. C. J. Sprague; a collection of butterflies 

 and other insects, native and Brazilian, by Mr. W. C. Henck. 



I^Iarch 2. A large collection of New England birds'-nests and eggs, and a 

 miscellaneous collection of mosses, crustaceans, shells, corals, etc., by Mr. W. 

 C. Henck; fniits from India, crania of domestic rat and mouse, and portions of 

 human crania from Delhi, by Mr. W. H. Dall; specimens of fish and reptiles 

 from Newport News, Va., by Dr. Josiah Curtis ; shells from Cuba, by Dr. Juan 

 Gundlach; an Enfield rifle from the wreck of the Keokuk, encrusted with shells, 

 by Mr. F. W. Merryman. 



lilarch 16. A specimen of Aster amethysiinvs obtained near West Cambridge, 

 by Mr. A. E. Verrill; a collection of Fungi from Venezuela; two human Chi- 

 nese skulls, crania of monkeys, Paradoxurus musanga, Manilla pig, of a petrel 

 and gull from the Pacific, also, a collection in spirits, of fishes, reptiles, etc., 

 from China, by Mr. George Sceva; cnistaceans and reptiles in spirits, and a 

 specimen of elephant's hair, by Mr. W. H. Dall; two bird skins, by Mr. Cham- 

 berlin; specimens of Nucula thracicefonnis from the stomach of an American 

 turbot, by Dr. Samuel Cabot; fruit of the nutmeg, Mijristica moscliata, in its 

 various stages of growth, in spirit, from Singapore, by Mr. John Hooper. 



BOOKS EECEIVED DURINQ THE QUARTER ENDING MARCH 31, 1864. 



Dictator Schaum ! Ein off'ner Brief an alle Entomologen von L. W. Schau- 

 fuss. Dresden, 1863. 8vo. Pamph. From the Author, 



Geognostische Wanderungen im Gebiete der nordostlichen Alpen. Von C. 

 Ehrlich. 8vo. Pamph. From the Author. 



Das Geographische System der Winde, etc. Von Dr. M. A. F. Prestel. 4to. 

 Pamph. Emdcn, 1863. From the Author. 



Cliilonidarum et Crambidarum genera et species. Scripsit P. C. Zeller. 4to. 

 Pamph. From the Author. 



Appunti Sulla Geologia del Piemonte di Bartolomeo Gastaldi. 4to. Pamph. 

 Turin. From the Authoi\ 



On the Archeopteryx of Von Meyer, etc. By Prof. Owen. 4to. Pamph. 

 1862. From the Author. 



Rainfall and Evaporation in St. Helena. By John Haughton. 8vo. Pamph. 

 Dublin, 1862. From the Author. 



Essay on Comparative Petrology. By M. J. Durocher. 8vo. Pamph. From 

 the Author. 



S\Tiopsis of the Marine Invertebrata collected by the late Arctic Expedition, 

 under Dr. I. I. Hayes. By Wm. Stimpson. 8vo. Pamph. From the Author. 



Classification of North American Helices. By Thomas Bland. 8vo. Pamph. 

 From the Author. 



