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May 20. Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia) male and female, from South 

 America; by N. H. Bishop. Native Borate of Lime from South America; by R- 

 H, Eddy. Fossils and Acorns; by Theodore Parker. Vitreous Copper Ore from 

 South Carolina; by Di-. C. T. Jackson. Saw of a Saw Fish; by Geo. S. Wheel- 

 wright. 



June 3. The extensive and valuable Herbarium of Benjamin D. Greene, 

 Esq., the first President of the Society. Shells and Crustacea .from Hiltonhead, 

 S. C. ; by J. S. P'ay, Esq. Sponges from Singapore, and Corals; by S. Durkee. 

 Cast of the Brain of Spurzheim ; by Theodore Pax'ker. 



June 17. A Photograph of the late Prof. J. W. Bailey, presented by his 

 brother W. M. Bailey, Esq., of Providence; Arvicola misterus, two specimens,^, 

 riparius, Eesperomys Bairdii, Vireo soUtarius, Trichas PhiladeljMca, Vermivora 

 chryso2}iera, V. peregrina, Rallus elegans, and a collection of Shells, all from 

 lUinois ; by Thomas Kennicott. 



BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE QUARTER ENDING JUNE 30, 1857. 



Description of New Fossil Crinoidea from the Palaeozoic Rocks of Western 

 and Southern Portions of the United States. By B. F. Shumard, M. D. 8vo. 

 Pamph. Philadelphia, 1857. Fi-om the Author. 



Synopsis Avium Tanagrinarum. By P. L. Sclater. 8vo. Pamph. Loudon. 

 From the Author. 



Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, gegiiindet von A. F. A. Wiegmann. Fortgesetzt 

 von W. F. Erichson. Sechstes Heft pp. 1-486. 8vo. 3 nos. Berlin, 1855. From 

 Br. F. H. Froschel. 



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

 Albany, 1457. Fi-om the Trustees. 



Seventeenth Annual Report of the Regents of the University of New York. 

 8vo. Pamph. Albany, 1857. From the Regents. 



Fourth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agri- 

 culture. 8vo. Boston, 1857. From J. L. Flinty Esq., Secretary. 



Report of the Commissioners on tbe Artificial Propagation of Fish. Massa- 

 chusetts Legislative Document. 8vo. Pamph. Boston, 1857. From N. E. At- 

 wood, Esq. 



Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Tenth Meeting, Albany, N. Y., 1856. 8vo. Pamph. Cambridge. From the 

 Association. 



Laws of Structure of the more disturbed Zones of the Earth's Crust. By 

 Prof. H. D. Rogers. 4to. Pampb. Edinburgh, 1856. 



Geology and Physical Geography of North America. By the same. 8vo. 

 Pamph. London, 1856. 



Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. New Series. Nos. 6, 8, 9. 8vo. 1856-7. 

 From Prof. H. D. Rogers. 



Rapport special sur les mesures qui ont (ii& adopts pour I'Etablissement d' une 

 Ecole Nonnale. 12mo. Pamph. Montreal, 1847. 



