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1864, acknowledging the receipt of the Society's publications and ask- 

 ing for back numbers of the same ; also from Mr. George W. Tryon, 

 Jr., Philadelphia, September 21st, 1864; and ^Mr. John T. Gulick, 

 Hong Kong, December, 7th, 1864, acknowledging their election as 

 Corresponding Members ; and from the Secretary of the Convention 

 of Young Men's Clii-istian Associations of the United States and 

 British Provinces, June 16th, 1864, acknowledging courtesies tendered 

 by the Society to their Delegates during a recent visit to Boston. 



The following gentlemen were elected Resident Members : 

 John Ritchie, Esq., of BrookUne ; Messrs. Charles E. and 

 Walter Faxon, of Jamaica Plain ; Mr. Joshua G. Nickerson, 

 of this city, and Mr. Charles H. Tweed, of Cambridge. 



DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



October 5. Chelydra serpentina from near Boston, by Mr. T. T. Bouve; Cis- 

 tudo virffinica, Wilmington, Mass., by Mr. L. L. Holden. Galena from the 

 Hampton Mines, Northampton, Mass., by Mr. W. T. Eustis. Tcenia solmm, by 

 Mr. Fox. Collection of fourteen specimens offish, eleven specimens of reptiles, 

 four insects, Anacardium occidentale, etc., eight specimens, from San Juan de los 

 Remedios, Cuba, by Mr. N. H. Bishop. Thirty-eight specimens of fish from the 

 Milwaukee river, Wis. ; two hundred specimens of fish, from Lake Goodwin, 

 Marquette Co., Mich. ; fifty-seven specimens of Unionidce from Kankaka, Kan- 

 kakee river; twenty-six specimens of minerals and seventeen specimens of fos- 

 sils, from Nova Scotia; three stalactites, from Yellowstone river, Nebraska; four 

 specimens of fossils and minerals, from Maine; seventy-three specimens of fossils 

 and minerals from Northern Michigan; two rock specimens from New Hamp- 

 shire; eleven minei-als from Massachusetts; forty-five specimens of fossijs and 

 minerals, from Illinois ; nineteen geological specimens, from Europe, and three 

 from St. Josephs, Mo. ; an Indian arrow-head, from a mound near Chicago, 111. ; 

 anthracite, from Reading, Pa.; minerals, from Calcutta, and Valparaiso, South 

 America; sixty-six specimens iron ore and rock specimens and a fish-hawk, 

 from Marquette Co., Mich. ; fifteen specimens of insects from Goodwin Lake, 

 Mich., by j\Ir. W. H. Dall. Menobranchus maculatus, Chicago river, by Mr. 

 Samuel Clark. Sixty-two specimens of Mollusca, by Mr. Charles A. Johnson. 

 A book containing twenty-nine specimens of sea-mosses, from Lynn Beach, by 

 Mr. N. Willis. Corydcdis cornutus, from Lynn, by Mr. W. L. Parker. 



October 19. Base of lower jaw of Sperm whale, by Mr. W. P. Kuhn. Two 

 Indian crania, a stone mortar and two pestles, from Stockton, Cal., by Dr. C. F. 

 Winslow. An Indian stone household implement from Sandwich, ]\Iass., and 

 three fossil bones from Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, by Mr. E. A. Brigham. 

 Seven specimens Arachnida and Myriapoda from the Isle of Pines, by Mr. S. H. 

 Scudder. 



November 2. Batrachus from Cohasset, by Dr. H. Bryant. Twenty-six speci- 

 mens of Fishes and Reptiles from Pennachenee Lake, Maine, by Messrs. E. F. 



