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from Mexico; by Henry W. Poole. A young American bear; by J. A. Cut- 

 ting, A young female mandrill ( Cynocephalus maimon), from Africa; by John 

 Sears. 



March 6. Skins of Lynx I'ufus, and two of L. maculatus (Texas), L fasnatvs 

 (Puget Sound), and Z/. Ca/irt(/e?w/s (Nebraska); Canis occidentalis (California), 

 and C. ?a<rrtns (Kansas); Urocyon Virfflnianus (Tes.iis); P utorius vison{ Asiorm), 

 and P. pusiUus (Hudson's Bay); Mephitis occidentalis (California); Taxidea 

 Amencana (Upper Missouri); Lutra Canadensis (Virginia); Proci/on Hernan- 

 (/ezii (California); Ursus Amei'icanus, very young (Northwest Boundary), and 

 U. liorribilis ; /Scmrus /bssor (California), two S. Hudsonius {Arctic America); 

 S. Richardsonii (Oi'egon); Pteromys o/y^mMs (Washington City), and P. sabri- 

 nns; Spermophilus grammurus (New Mexico), S. lateralis (Nebraska), S. 

 tredeciinllneaius, and S. Townsendii (Upper Missouri); Tamias c^uadriviitatus 

 (Fort Benton and Oregon); Arctomys j^ruinosus, two (N. W. Boundary); Castor 

 Canadensis, embryo; Neotoma cinerea (Nebraska); Arvicola xanthognathus 

 (Slave Lake and Arctic America); Ilesperomys myoides (Slave Lake and Upper 

 Missouri); Cynomys Laidoviciana (Oregon), and C Gunnisonii (Upper Missouri); 

 Fiber zibethicus (Upper Missouri and Arctic America) ; Erethizon epixanthus 

 (Kansas?); Lepus sylvaiicus (Alabama and Iowa), L. Ainericanus (Arctic 

 America, Fort Simpson, and New York ?), L. campestris vel Townsendii (Ne- 

 braska), and L. artemisia (Nebraska); Cervus macrotis (Upper Missouri), and 

 C. CoLumbianus (Puget Sound) ; Antilucapra Americana, two, (Upper Mis- 

 souri); skulls of Ovis montana (two); Cervus Culumbianus vel Lewisii (tyvo); 

 Lynx Tufus, Antilocapra Americana (two); Canis occidentalis, and Musttla 

 Americana ; antlers of Cervus leucurus and Antilocajjra Americana ; by the 

 Smithsonian Institution. A Cidaris from the Bahamas ; several eggs of the 

 snapping turtle ( Chelydra serpentina), from Lake Ontario, and of the ten-apin; 

 by Dr. H. Bryant. Two lower jaws of the hog {Sus scrofa) ; by Dr. S. Knee- 

 land, Jr. 



BOOKS KECEIVED DURING THE QUARTER ENDING MARCH 31, 1861. 



Keport on the Mollusca and Shells of the United States Exploring Expedi- 

 tion. By A. A. Gould, M. D. Folio. Plates. Philadelphia, 1861. From the 

 Author. 



Experiments upon Vegetables. By J. Ingen-Housy. 8vo. London, 1779. 

 From Dr. B. Joy Jeffries. 



On the Genus Raphidophora. By Samuel H. Scudder. 8vo. Pamph. 1861. 

 From the Author. 



Catalogue of Fishes of the Eastern Coast of North America. By Theodore 

 Gill. 8vo. Pamph. From the Author. 



Dr. J. L. Smith on the Guernsey Co. (Ohio) Meteorites. 8vo. Pamph. 

 From the Author. 



Lunar Tidal Wave in North American Lakes. By Brevet Lt.-Col. J. D. 

 Graham. 8vo. Pamph. From the Author. 



Dissertatio Historico-Zoologica de Alee. Small 4to. Pamph. Jena\<, 1861. 

 From Dr. Henry Bryant. 



Memoires et Documents publics par la Socit'tc' Historiqiie de ]\Iontreal, 

 3ieine Livraison. 8vo. Pamph. 1860. From Capt. L. A. 11. Latour. 



Coleoptera of Kansas and Eastern New Mexico. By John L. Le Conte, 

 M. D. 4to. Pamph. Washington. From the Smithsonian Institution. 



Botanical and Palceontological Keport of the Geological State Survey of 

 Arkansas. By Leo Lcsquereux. 8vo. Pamph. Philadelphia. From the 

 Author. 



