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The thanks of the Society were returned to the Sanitary 

 Commission for this valuable donation. 



Mr. Henry M. Wellington and Dr. J. F. Adams of Boston, 

 were elected Resident Members. 



DOXATIOXS TO THE MUSEUM FEOJI JAN. 1 TO MAY 2, 1866. 



January 3, 1866. Travertine from Vermont, by Mr. Marshall Tidd. Cra- 

 nium from an excavation at the Golden Gate, San Francisco, Cal., by Dr. C. A. 

 Kirkpatrick, U. S. A. Cranium of a Piute Indian from an ancient battle field 

 at-Austen, Nevada, by Dr. C. T. Jackson. Crania of the Horse and Ass from 

 Africa, by the Boston Milling and Manufacturing Co. Mud cells of Pelopaeus 

 from BrownviUe. Texas, by Major H. Bumstead. Card'aun Cooperi Gabb, and 

 Amauropsis alveohtus Conrad, from the Cretaceous rocks at Santa Barbara, 

 Cal.; Native Borax from Clear Lake, Lake Co., Cal.; recent shehs from the 

 const at Santa Bai-bara, Cal., by Dr. C. T. Jackson. Cast of the head of the 

 Dodo from the Museum at Oxford, England, by Dr. George Rolleston. The fol- 

 lowing species of land shells from Cuba: Planorhis (Discus) albicans Pfr., 

 Proserpina depressa Orb. var., from Cai'denas; Cyclostoma Zae/meri Pfr., from 

 Sagra de Panamo; Cyclostoma choanopioma Gundl., from the mouth of the Va- 

 terno River; Hdix rufo-apicata Poey, from Gibaru; Helicina elegans Gundl., II. 

 jucunda Gundl., from Guayaibou; Helicina straminea Mor., from IJancho 

 Lucas, by Dr. Juan Gundlach. Leaf of the Muraevilla Tree from Equador, by 

 Dr. C. F. Winslow. Cast of the skull of Chceropus minor, received in ex- 

 change from Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 



February 7. Numerous shells from the Quaternary formation at Gardiner, 

 Maine, including a tooth of the Bison; tertiaiy fossils from the Mediterranean 

 Sea, and other fossils. Specimen of the Polished Rocks from Smoky Valley, 

 Nevada; Femur of an Lidian from a ''Refuse Heap" of clams, etc., at Ply- 

 mouth, Mass.; Humerus which had been perforated at the olecranon fossa, 

 from an Indian grave at Chelsea, Mass.; Zygjienid larvae, pupjB and moths, 

 found feeding on the Evergreen Oak, Sun Francisco, Cal., by Dr. C. T. Jackson. 

 Ores of Lead, Zinc and Copper from the Isle of ]\Iann, Great Britain, by the 

 Agassiz Natural History Society, Cambridge, Mass. Syngnathus peckianus 

 Storei", from ]\Iassachusetts Bay, by Mi. R. C Greenleaf. Si:)ecimens of Silu- 

 rian fossils, from Straits of Belle Isle, Labrador, supposed to have been trans- 

 ported on ice from the Arctic regions, by Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr. Skull of the 

 Polar Bear, from Arctic America, by Dr. J. K. Warren. 



February 21. Sal/no immaculutus H. R. Storer, Hopedale, S. salar Linn., 

 young. Belles Amours, S. kudsonicus Suckley, Mallotus villosus Cuvier, Gadus 

 arenosus Mitch., A mmodytes diibius Reindt., Gymnacanthus Patris (Storer), Henley 

 Harbor, Pygosteus Cuvieri Brevoort, Caribou Is., Straits of Be'le Isle, Sahno 

 Trutta ? Isle of Ponds, Domino Harbor, Sebastes norvegicus, from Labrador, by 

 Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr. 



March 7. Three snakes, and one hundred and ten insects, from Pensacola 



