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September 3, 1856. 

 The President in the Chair. 



A letter was read from M. Alexis Perry, of Dijon, 

 France. 



A letter was read from Dr. Samuel Kneeland, Jr., 

 notifying the Society of his resignation of the office of 

 Curator of Ichthyology, and presenting a catalogue of 

 the Comparative Anatomy Cabinet, a portion of the 

 catalogue of the vertebrata which he had undertaken to 

 complete. 



A communication was read from the city authorities, 

 inviting the Society to unite in the ceremonies of the 

 inauguration of the statue of Franklin. 



It was voted to accept the invitation, and a com- 

 mittee, consisting of Messrs. Stodder, Jackson, and Whit- 

 temore, was appointed to make the proper arrangements. 



Dr. Durkee, in behalf of the committee appointed to 

 consider the question of purchase of the Entomological 

 Cabinet of the late Dr. Harris, reported, that the com- 

 mittee had examined the collection and found it in 

 perfect preservation ; containing between four and five 

 thousand species of American, besides a collection of 

 foreign insects. The committee proposed that a sum of 

 money should be raised, by subscription, for the purchase 

 of the cabinet. Messrs. Amos Binney and James M. 

 Barnard were added to the committee. 



The Secretary read the following communication from 

 Prof. William B. Rogers : — 



So far as I have yet explored the quarry in the Quincy and 

 Braintree belt, containing the remarhahle fossil Trilobites to 



