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Dr. Durkee exhibited specimens of Goliathus giganteus^ 

 from the interior of Africa; a male and female Katy-did, 

 {Platyphyllum concavum,) from Milton, Mass. ; and two 

 male specimens of Spectrum femoratum, Say, commonly 

 known as Walking Sticks, from Brookline. 



Dr. Keep presented a cast of a fourth molar tooth, 

 occurring in the left side of the upper jaw of a human 

 subject. The tooth was not of full size. 



The President observed that there was a fourth molar 

 in the skeleton of the Chimpanzee in the Society's 

 Cabinet. 



The following gentlemen were elected Corresponding 

 Members, viz : Winthrop Sargent, of Natchez, Miss. ; 

 Dr. John S. Newberry, of Cleveland, Ohio; William F. 

 Robinson, of Ceres, McKean Co., Penn. ; and John R. 

 Blake, of Greensboro', Ga. 



The following gentlemen were elected Resident Mem- 

 bers, viz : Albert Fearing, S. H. Pearce, Augustine Shurt- 

 leff, John S. Foster, and Frank D. Cobb. 



DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



July 2d. A collection of Shells, including eighty-seven species from Herkimer 

 Co., N. Y., and twenty species from Georgia, Alabama, and Ohio; presented by 

 Dr. James Lewis, of Mohawk, N. Y. ( Virle catalogue on p. 1, Vol. VI.) 



July 16th. Parasitic Crustaceans known as Salve Bugs ; by Mr. Addison Gott, 

 of Rockport, Mass. A Serpent and Salamander, from St. Mary's, Elk Co., Penn. ; 

 by Dr. C. T. Jackson. A Bat, from Cuba; by Dr. A. A. Gould. A Rattlesnake, 

 Croialus dur'issits, killed in Milton, Mass.; by Dr. C. C. Holmes. Two specimens 

 of Argus Pheasant, Argus giganteus, male and female, from Malacca; by Oscar 

 Gassett, Esq. Salmo erylhrogaster, from Moosehead Lake ; two specimens of 

 Salmo fonlinalis ; a specimen of a probably undescribed species from the Great 

 Schoodic Lakes ; two Smelts ; and three specimens of different species of Alosa, 

 from the Penobscot River and the sea near its mouth ; by Dr. S. Kneeland, Jr. 



August 6tb. A bottle of Fishes from the western coast of Africa; by Mrs. 

 George S. Hillard. 



Sept. 3d. A collection of specimens from California, consisting of Birds, Mam- 

 mals, Corals, and Molluscs; by James Tallant, Esq., of Concord, N. H. Two 

 young Sea-Turtles, from Penang, E. Indies; by Capt. George E. Tyler, of Dor- 



