59 



From George W. Tryon, Esq., Philadelphia, acknowledging his 

 election as Corresponding Member ; the Secretary of the Convention 

 of the Young Mens' Christian Associations, held in Boston, acknowl- 

 edging courtesies received from this Society ; the editor of the Annu- 

 aire des Societes Savantes, Paris, June 29, 1864, asking information 

 concerning the Society; the Royal Society of London, May 16th, 1864, 

 acknowledging the receipt of the Society's publications ; the Super- 

 intendent of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta, October 1st, 

 1863, presenting publications of the Survey; the Naturhistorische 

 Gesellschaft zu Niirnberg, June loth, 1864, presenting its Transac- 

 tions; and the Academie Lnperiale des Sciences, Lyon, April 10th, 

 1863, presenting its Memoires. 



The following gentlemen were elected Resident Members : 

 Messrs. James Tolman, Henry Edwards, Oliver Ames, 

 Phineas E. Gay, Charles S. Kendall, Avery Plumer, Joseph 

 Breck, George H. Homans, and Wilham Endicott, Jr. 



DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



Sept, 21. Eighteen hundred dried plants, mostly from Brookline, Mass., six thou- 

 sand five hundred dry, and two thousand two hundred and twenty-five alcoholic 

 specimens of insects, twenty-six spiders, and twenty-nine myriapoda, one hun- 

 dred and fifty native Chinese, and two hundred specimens of Japanese insects, 

 thirty-two mammals and birds, thirty-six reptiles, seven fishes, fifty-two Crusta- 

 cea, fifty-one worms, eighty-five mollusca, forty-seven radiata, mostly from New 

 England, bequest of Mr. C. A. Shurtleflf; two skeletons of Galapagos tortoise from 

 Galapagos Islands, by Dr. C. F. Winslow ; lower jaw of sperm whale from the 

 Coast of Pei-u, by Capt. P. Howland ; twenty-seven specimens of rocks and build- 

 ing stones, by the Smithsonian Institution; tracks of Cheirotherium from Sorton 

 Quarry, near Liverpool, England, by Capt. Anderson and Mr. George Moore; 

 model in plaster of Mont Blanc and Chamounix, by Mr. H. B. Stanwood ; two 

 trilobites from Trenton Falls, three specimens of insects in Amber, fourteen 

 spirifers, from the Potomac River, three miles below Aquia Creek, a fossil echino- 

 derm;nestof Chcetura pelasgia^ from BurUngton, Vt.; four uniones, from Fish 

 Creek Ponds, Saranac Lakes, N. Y., by Dr. H. I. Bowditch; mollusca, from the 

 Cretaceous beds, New Castle County, Del., by Mr. J. T. Rothrock; one hundred 

 and seventy-five specimens of land and fresh water mollusca consisting of the 

 following species: Helix auricoma FOr., H. incrustata Poey, II. Brodieri Gu- 

 tierez, H. emarginata Gundl., H. vortex Pfr., H. versicolor Biun., H. ruhromar- 

 ginata Gundl., H. minuscula Binn., H. Ottonis Pfr., H. GundlacU Pfr., Helicina 

 reeveana Pfr.,F. elongafa Orb., ff. minima Orb., H. bellula Gundl., K subglobulosa 

 Poey, Ci/lindrella sexdecimalis Jimeno, C- sowerbyana Pfr. var. minor, C. irroi'ata 

 Gundl., C. brunnescens Gundl., C. coronach Arm., C. variegata Pfr., C. bland- 

 iana Gundl., C. angulifera Gundl., C ElUottii Poey, C. Wrightii Pfr., C ccuru- 

 lans Poey, C. notata Gundl., Cyclostomn egregium Gundl., C. chordatina Gundl., 

 C. textum Gundl., C.2^udicum Orb., C rugulosum Pfr., C. undosum Gundl., C. 



