194 



Sub-order — Urodela. 



Taricha torosa, Gray, Cat. llept. in British Museum. 



Taricha larvis, H. & G. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. vol. 6, 

 p. 302, 1853. 



Aneides liiguhris, B. & G. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. vol. 4, 

 p. 126. 



Heredia Oregonensis, Ch. Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil, 

 vol. 8, p. 235, 1856. 



Batrachoseps attenuata, S. F. Baird, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phil. vol. 1, p. 288, 1849. 



Amhystonia Calif ornica, Gray, Cat. Rept. in Brit, Mus. 



Dr. A. A. Gould, in behalf of the committee appointed 

 to receive and report upon the Bequest of Professor Bai- 

 ley, submitted the following report, which was accepted. 



» 



The Committee appointed to receive and report upon the 

 Bequest of the late Prof. Bailey, have attended to their duty, 

 and state the following results :— 



The examination of the Books, Drawings, and Correspondence 

 was submitted to the Chairman — the Microscopical Collection to 

 Dr. Bacon — the Algce and preparations of organic tissues to 

 Dr. Durkee. 



In presenting the Report, the order in which the several be- 

 quests are specified will be followed. 



I. The Microscopical Collectiox. Dr. Bacon's Re- 

 port, (A.) 



The Microscopic Collection, which comprises the most valu- 

 able portion of the specimens mounted for the microscope, is 

 contained in twenty-four boxes in the shape of octavo volumes. 



Five of the boxes contain specimens of Diatoms, &c. from the 

 Atlantic Soundings, including two boxes from Lieut. Berry- 

 man's Soundings between America and Ireland in 1856. 



Three boxes contain specimens from Soundings in the Arctic 

 pnd Pacific oceans. Gulf of Mexico, and Para River, &c. in S. 

 America. 



In four boxes are American and Foreign Diatoms ; Diatoms 

 in Guano ; and Fossil Polycistlns and Diatoms from Barbadoes. 



