247 [Inituam. 



arrow heads, a thin oval stone with two holes in it, an oval 

 stone used probably in dressing skins of animals for clothing, 

 several fragments of an oval shaped pot about fourteen inches 

 long, ten wide and four deep, made of soap-stone, and having 

 a knob or handle at each end, a piece of pure red ochre, 

 a portion of a scapula and two bones of the foot of a 

 cow, and a pre-molar tooth of a hog. There was also a 

 quantity of bone dust and considerable colored earth, proba- 

 bly colored by the ochre. 



Messrs. J. I. Hale, Jr., and George W. Swettwere elected 

 Resident Members. 



DONATIONS TO THE :MUSEUM FOR THE QUARTER ENDING 

 DECE3IBER 31, 1865. 



Oct. 4. A specimen of Juhis, from E. Stougliton, Mass., by Mr. Asa Brett ; Diapho- 

 mtrafemorata ? from Winchester, Mass., by ]\Ir. S. D. Clarke; Jaws of a shark, 

 a species of Bat, Pteropus^ known as the " Flying Fox" in Madras; six speci- 

 mens of fish, specimens of clay iron stone from Madras, four hundred and fifty 

 land and marine shells from Southern India and the Indo-Chinese Peninsula, 

 by W. H. Dall; Sorex platyrhinus^ a litter of young field mice, Eutainia sertalis, 

 Storeria occipito-maculata, Anibystoma 2)unctaia, Pletliodon erythronota, Eana, 

 Helix albolabris. Tebennophorus carolinensis from Brunswick, Me., and Pholas 

 crisjjata from Casco Bay, by Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr. ; specimens of Lava, from 

 Kilauea volcano. Sandwich Islands, tweutj^-two species of Achatinella from the 

 Sandwich Islands; Metaptera alata from the Genesee river, Rochestei', N. Y., 

 by Dr. Alonzo Chapin. 



Oct. 18. Ambystoma punctata from South Dedham, by Mr. M. D. White; 

 specimens of Aphis from Chelsea, by Dr. A. A. Gould; Eggs of an insect depos- 

 ited on a sprig of the oak, Norfolk, Va., by Dr. C. G. Greene; Seed vessels of 

 Bignonia, etc., exotic shells (two hundred specimens), some minerals, and the 

 lower jaw of a porpoise, by Dr. A. Coolidge; specimen of fossil wood from 

 near Washington, D. C, by Dr. J. F. Fvhhie ; Limophora flabellata, by Mr. C. G. 

 Bush; a mole from near Washington, D. C, and young flying squirrels from 

 Burkville Junction, Va.. by A. S. Packard, Jr. ; four hundred specimens of Heli- 

 ces and marine sheUs from Lyme Regis, one hundred specimens of fossils from 

 the Lias, from Lyme Regis, thirty specimens of Minerals from mines in Corn- 

 waU, England, by Dr. H. Bryant; Skull of a camel brought from New Orleans, 

 La., by Boston Milling and Manufacturing Company. 



Nov. 1. Specimens offish from California, which are caught in large quan- 

 tities and dried and eaten by the Wokopee Indians, three specimens of Coleop- 

 tera collected near the Dalles of the Columbia river, ten specimens of scorpions 

 from Panama, S. A., Insects, mostly Coleopterous, from Acapulco and Man- 

 zanilla, ]\Iexico, a Crustacean from Manzanilla, a collection of upwards of 

 three hundred insects, and the embryo of a bird from San Francisco, Cal., by 

 Mr. Samuel Hubbard; thirty-five specimens of insects. Fungi, specimens of 



