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Canadian Naturalist and Geologist. 8vo. Vol. 2. Nos. 5 and 6. Montreal, 

 1857. 

 Archiv fiir Natiirgeschichte. Gegrlindet von A. F. A. Wiegman. Nos. 4, 5, 



1856. Berlin. 



Recueil des Actes de I'Academie Imperiale des Sciences, &c. de Bordeaux. 

 18ieme ann^e. 1856. 2e Trimestre. 8vo. Pamph. Bordeaux. 



Verhandlungen des Zoologisch-botanischen Vereins in Wien. Band VI. 

 Jahr. 1856. 8vo. Wien. 



Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akaderaiens Handlingar. Ny Foljd. Fiirsta 

 Bandet. Fcirsta Hiiftet. 4to. 1855. 



Wiirttembergische Naturwissenschaftliche Jahi-eshefte. Nos. 3, 1852; 3, 3, 

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Konigl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, fur ar 1854. 8vo. 



Ofversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar Trettonde Argang- 

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Address at the Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Geographical Societj^. By 

 Sir E. Murchison, President, (Pi-oceedings, No 10.) 8vo. Pamph. London, 



1857. Received in Exchange. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Vol. 20. No. 121. (Supplemen- 

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Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. No. 52 and 53. 8vo. Lou- 

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Birds of Asia. By John Gould, F. R. S. &c. Folio. 2 Parts. London, 1850. 



Monograph of the Trochilidje or Humming Birds. By John Gould, F. R. S. 

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Mammals of Australia. By J. Gould, F. R. S. &c. Folio. London, 1845. 

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Life and Times of Aaron Burr. By J. Parton. 8vo. N. Y. 1858. Deposited 

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April 7, 1858. 



The President in the Chair. 



Mr. John Green reminded the Society that, in some 

 remarks made at a former meeting, he had stated that 

 all fish scales have the chemical constitution of bone, 

 and that in their structure and mode of growth also, they 

 present many of the characters of true bone. A section 

 of the scale of Labrax lineatus, (Cuvier,) shows lacunse 

 of an elongated form, which in figure and in arrange- 



