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Snow and H. C. "Whittier. Phalaropus Wihonii in breeding plumage, by Mr. Thure 

 Kuralein. Seven specimens of insects and thirty-four Helices, from Hartt's 

 Location, White Mountains, N. H., by Dr. S. A. Bemis. Two deformed lobster 

 " claws " from Provincetown, Mass., by Capt. N. E. Atwood. A number of casts 

 of fossils, from Prof. H. A. Ward, by exchange. A Lizard and its eggs, from La 

 Huecaon the River Chira, near the Bay of Paita, S. A.; two Lizards from the 

 cliffs on the Bay of Paita, S. A. ; two Sepiae, from the Bay of Paita ; two frogs col- 

 lected between the borders of Equador and Quito, taken at an elevation of 9,000 

 feet above the sea: an Annelid, Equador, taken at an elevation of 7,000 to 

 8,000 feet; one hundred and sixty-seven specimens of insects, from P'quador, by 

 Dr. C. F. Winslow. Pemmican, from the Red River Settlements, British North 

 America, by Mr. S. H. Scudder. Cyanurus cristatus and Icterus Baltimorl, from 

 near Boston, by Mr. E. A. Brigham. Six specimens of Copper and Lead ores 

 from Middletown, Conn. ; Peat, from Lexington, Mass., by Dr. C. T. Jackson. 



November 16. Thirty-three ]\Iexican masks, by the Smithsonian Institution, 

 forty-five specimens of fossil bones, from Riobamba, S. A. ; a Criistacean, from 

 Mansanilla, Mexico; Brenthus taken on shipboard in the Gnlf of Mexico, 

 by Dr. C. F. Winslow. Lignite, from Dutch Cap Canal, James River, 

 Va., by Dr. S. A. Green. Salamander, from Jamaica Plain, by Mr. R. Scott. 

 Procijon lotor, Raccoon, living, by Dr. W. E. Coale. Silver sword grass, 

 from Mauna Loa, Sandwich Islands, by ^liss Kingman. Brucite and Py- 

 romorphite, from Pennsylvania, by Mr. E. L. Sturtevant. Skull of Polar 

 Bear, Ursus maritimus, from Hudson's Bay, by W. M. Thompson. Two seed 

 vessels, by Mrs. Fielding. Romalea, from Jacksonville, Florida, by Mr. A. L. 

 Miller. Ostraa, from the Southern States, or West Indies, by Mr. S. H. Scudder. 

 Twenty-nine specimens of nests and eggs of birds, collected by Xanthus and 

 others in Mexico and West Indies ; four hundred and ninety-six specimens of land 

 shells, fromMatanzas and Flor de Cayo near Remedios, Cuba; fifty-six speci- 

 mens of Lepidoptera, from Flor de Cayo, Cuba; five hundred and nine speci- 

 mens of Mollusca, from Cape St. Lucas ; sixty-one specimens of ]\Iollusca,from Car^ 

 denas, Cuba; a small collection of skulls and stei-nal bones of birds from Massa- 

 chusetts, Labrador and the Bahama Islands; seventy-three alcoholic specimens 

 of Mollusca, and one hundred and eighty-five alcoholic specimens of Insects 

 from San .Juan de los Remedios, Cuba ; one hundred and seventy-five Lepidop- 

 tera, from France and Switzerland; three hundred and fifty-five insects, mostly 

 coleopterous, from Algeria; two hundred and seventy-eight specimens of Coleop- 

 tera, from France ; one hundred and ninety-four native insects, by Dr. H. Bry- 

 ant. Snake and tree toad, from Petersburg, Va., by M. F. Andemach. Two 

 hundred and twenty-seven specimens of Mollusca from Cuba, by Seiior D. 

 Francisco Jimeno. Twenty-six specimens of fossils from St. Albans, Vt., Mad- 

 ison and Canaan, Me., by Mr. L. Hills. 



December 7. Model of a Diamond, from North Carolina, by Dr. A. A. Gould. 

 Lignite, from Dutch Gap Canal, Va., by Dr. Thomas B. Hitchcock. Eighteen 

 specimens of coal plants from Pennsylvania, eleven samples of coal, from Ply- 

 mouth, Pa., by Dr. C. T. Jackson. One hundred and seventeen specimens of 

 Mollusca, probably from Cape de Verde Islands, by Mr. N. H. Bishop. Four 

 specimens of jaws andvertebroeof sharks and the sword fish, from Provincetown, 

 Mass., by Capt. N. S. Atwood. Part of the lower jaw of the moose, from Lake 

 Superior, by ^Ir. Todd. Organic tissues of Klephas primigenius Blum., from the 

 Lena river, Siberia, by Dr. W. Channing. Skull of Beaver, from Lake Superior, 

 by ^Ir. W. H. Dall. Diaphomera femornta., from Boston, by ]Mr. C. .J. Sprague. 

 Eupyrgus scaber, twenty-five specimens of Turrittlla reticulata Mighels; thirteen 



