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Chester. Three specimens of Prairie Massasanga, Crotahphorus tergeminus ; 

 three Spotted Water-Adders, Nevodia sipedon ; Prairie Water- Adder, Rer/ina Gra- 

 hamii; Eutamia proxima, E. radix, E. sirtalis ; Green Snake, Coluber vernalis ; 

 received in exchange from Robert Kennicott, Esq., of Illinois. Two specimens 

 of Hyla triseriata ; one of Hemidactylum scutatum ; one of Ameira sexlineata ; 

 two of Salamandra symmetrica ; two of Salamandra of unknown species ; one of 

 Amhystoma punctata ; two of Amhystoma lurida ; two of Cestudo Blandingii ; ten 

 of Emys picta ; two of Heterodon 2)latyrrhinos ; by Dr. J. N. Borland. 



BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE QUARTER ENDING SEPT. 30, 1856. 



Gliederung der Bevolkerung des Bayern. Von Hei-mann. 4to. Pamph. 

 Miinchen, 1855. From the Author. 



The Red Sandstone Formation of Pennsylvania, and Genera and Species of 

 Shells. Isaac Lea. 8vo. Pamph. Philadelphia, 1856. From the Author. 



American Geology. Bj^ Eben Emmons. Vol. I. 8vo. Albany, 1855. From 

 the Author. 



Annual Report of the Trustees of the New York State Library. 8vo. Pamph. 

 Albany, 1856. From the Trustees. 



Memoires de la Soci^t^ Royale des Sciences de Liege. Tome X. 8vo. Li^ge, 

 1855. From the Societe Royale. 



Plantse Kaneanse Grajnlandicce. By E. Dnrand. 4to. Pamph. 1856. -From 

 the Author. 



Rede in der offentlichen Sitsung der Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften. 

 Von Thiersch. 4to- Pamph. Miinchen, 1855. From the Author. 



History and description of the Skeleton of a New Sperm Whale in the Aus- 

 tralian Museum. By Wm. S. Wall. 8vo. Sydney, 1851. From the Aulhoi: 



Thii'd supplement to Dana's Mineralogy. 8vo. Pamph. 1856. From the 

 Author. 



Synopsis of Entozoa and some of their Ecto-congeners. By Joseph Leidy, 

 M. D. 8vo. Pamph. Philadelphia, 1856. 



Descriptions of some Remains of Fishes from the Carboniferous and Devonian 

 Formations of the United States. Also, Descriptions of some Remains of Ex- 

 tinct Mammalia. By Joseph Leidy. 4to. Pamph. Philadelphia, 1856. From 

 the Author. 



Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. V. New 

 Series. 4to. Cambridge and Boston, 1855. 



Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. III. 

 pp. 185-248. 8vo. 1855-6. From the Academy. 



Description of a New Genus of Crinoidea. By L. P. Yandell, M. D. 8vo. 

 Pamph. 1856. 



Notice of a Fossil Genus, Blastoidea, from the Devonian Strata. Kentucky. 

 8vo. Pamph. By B. F. Shumard, M. D., and L. P. Yandell, M. D. 1856. From 

 the Authors. 



Statistical Information relating to certain Branches of Industry of Massachu- 

 setts. By Francis DeWitt. 8vo. Boston, 1856. 



Third Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agricul- 

 ture. 8vo. Boston, 1856. From C. L. Flint. 



