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who are killed by the tigers, are left unconsumed, and 

 that, upon an average, one body daily is found with the 

 neck dislocated. 



Dr. Charles Pickering observed that undoubtedly many 

 bodies are found, but probably a much larger number 

 are carried off by the tigers into the thick jungles, and 

 consumed at their leisure. 



Dr. A. A. Gould presented, in the name of J. P. Cou- 

 thoy, Esq., specimens of corals taken in seventy feet of 

 water from the well-known wreck near the Island of 

 Magdalena. The vessel has been under water about 

 forty years, and consequently these corals are not above 

 that age. He supposed them to be the largest speci- 

 mens found upon the wreck, and suggested that they 

 might aid in determining the rate of coral growths. 



Capt. Atwood exhibited a bottle of oil, a specimen of a 

 substance which is occasionally thrown up on the shore 

 of Provincetown, and which is supposed to come from 

 the remains of the brig Hollander, which was lost some 

 twenty years since in that neighborhood, and which was 

 probably laden with linseed oil. 



The specimen was referred to Dr. Hayes for exami- 

 nation. 



Dr. Bryant exhibited several of the birds presented last 

 year by the Victoria Society, at Melbourne, and a por- 

 tion of Mr. Samuels's birds from California. 



Dr. Gould presented, according to the directions of 

 the late Dr. Binney, the third volume of the Terrestrial 

 Mollusks and Shells of the United States, described and 

 illustrated by Dr. Binney, and edited by Dr. Gould. 



