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A. A. Hayes, I\I. D. Description and Analysis of a new 

 kind of Bitumen. 



April 4, 18G6. 



H. Manx. Description of some new species of the genus 

 ScJiiedea, and of a new allied genus. 



Revision of the Rutaceaj of the Hawaiian Islands. 

 C. T. Jacksox, M. D. Chemical analyses of minerals asso- 

 ciated with the Emery of Chester, Mass. 

 Capt. N. E. Atwood. On the habits of the Haddock. 



April 18, 1866. 



Prof. A. E. Yerrill. A Review of the Polyps and Corals 

 of Panama and vicinity, with descriptions of eleven new 

 species of Corals. 



On the Polyps and Echinoderms of Long Island Sound, 

 with descriptions of tAvo new siDecies of a new genus. 



During the year the Society has elected eleven Corres- 

 ponding Members and forty-four Resident Members. 



The Society having again resumed jDublication, the first Part 

 of Volume I. of the Memoirs, is now ready for distribution, 

 and nearly one half of Volume X. of the Proceedings, in- 

 cluding the records of the meetings held during 1864 and 

 1865, have been printed, and issued. There are now two 

 hundred subscribers to the Proceedings, and one hundred 

 and seventy-four to the Memoirs. Still more, at least one 

 hundred, are needed to make these journals self-sustaining. 



It will be seen by the reports of the Librarian and several 

 Curators, that the additions this year have, in certain depart- 

 ments, been of much importance, while the total number of 

 specimens presented, amounts to 14,000. The collection of 

 birds, especially, has been increased to three times its former 

 size, while its real value has been enhanced in a much greater 

 jiroportion, by the liberality of the Curator of Ornithology in 

 presenting to the Society a series of birds which formed the 

 largest private collection in Europe. By the addition of this 

 most extensive collection, which was made by Count Lafi-es- 

 naye, an accomplished ornithologist, and which comprises 

 nearly nine thousand specimens of mounted birds, the Soci- 

 ety's Collection has now become one of national importance, 

 and invaluable for reference to our working ornithologists. 



