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Fla.; four snakes and two turtle eggs from New Orleans; a bat and two 

 hundred insects from Mobile; seeds of Palma Christi; Teeth of the "Sheep's 

 Head" fish, by Dr. S. Kneeland, Jr. A new variety of Bitumen from Utah 

 Territory, by Prof. "William Denton. 



March 21. Campylodiscus and other Diatomaceae from Colberg, Prussia, by 

 C. G. Bush. Thirty specimens of ores from California and Nevada, by Dr. C. 

 T. Jackson. 



Api'il 4. Fifty-four species of Mollusca from Panama, the types of Prof. C. B. 

 Adams; eighty-nine species from Vancouver Island and Califomia, named by 

 P.P. Carpenter; Shells collected by the U. S. Exploring Expedition, named 

 from the Curaingian Collection ; Shells collected by the U. S. Exploring Expe- 

 dition, and named from Dr. Gould's types ; Mollusca, mostly marine, collected 

 at Mazatlan, by P. P. Carpenter, and forming his types, by the Smithsonian In- 

 stitute . An Indian stone axe and a fossil shell, by Mr. A. E. L. Dillaway. A 

 collection of Reptiles, mostly from this State, by Mr. S. Hinckley. Indian Poison 

 from the Amazon River, near the boundary of Peru, by Mr. Van Rensellaer 

 Thayer. 



AprillS. Sixty specimens of minerals, sixty specimens of exotic shells and 

 a few corals, from Mr. Nathan Appleton. Leeches taken from the clam, 3fija 

 arcnaria, by Mr. C. C. Sheafe. Fruits from various localities ; four exotic Crus- 

 tacea, by Mr. E. R. Mayo. Two hundred species of marine invertebrates 

 from Labrador, sixty species of marine invertebrates from the coast of Maine, 

 by Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr. Sand from the sea-bottom at Grand Bank of New- 

 foundland ; Eyas aranea, Toxopneustes drdbacMensis, Cynthia pynformis, Pecten 

 islandicuSy Buccinum undidatum, B. Totteni, Natica helicoides, Cyrtodaria siliqua, 

 Mactra polynema, from the Grand Bank of Newfoundland, by Capt. N. E. 

 Atwood. 



May 2. Callidium antennatum, found boring in the Red Cedar, by Mr. F. W. 

 ^G. May. Sternum of a Flamingo, and Fungi from Inaqua, Bahama Islands, 

 March, 1866, by Dr. H. Bryant. Cocoon and Chrysalis of Samia Cecropia 

 from Louisville, Ky., by Prof J. Lawrence Smith. Copper ore, from Iron Ore 

 Hill, Franconia, N. H., by W. E. Coffin & Co. Fungi; the Sternum of a Flam- 

 ingo ; and the Calvarium of a native, from a cave on Moneague Island, one of 

 the Bahamas, by Dr. H. Bryant. 



BOOKS EECEIVED DURING THE YEAR ENDING MAT 2, 1866. 



Observations on the Geology of Southern New Brunswick. By L. W. Bailey, 

 A.M. 8vo. Frederickton, 1865. From the Author. 



On the Origin and Formation of Prairies. By Leo Lesquereux. 8vo. Pamph. 

 New Haven, 1865. From the Author. 



Ueber Getreideverwiister. Von Gust. Ad. Kunstler. Svo. Pamph. Wien, 

 1864. 



Compte rendu provisoire de quelques observations qui prouvent que le Po- 

 disoma Sabinee, et le Roestelia cancellata sont des generations alternantes de 

 la meme espece de champignons. Par A. S. Orsted. 8vo. Pamph. Copen- 

 hagen, 1865. From the Author. 



