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Thomas Gaffield, Esq., and Dr. J. H. Otis, of Boston, 

 and Dr. Ira Russell, of Natick, Mass., were elected Resi- 

 dent Members. 



DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



April 21, 1858. Echinoderms, from Grand Manan; by Prof. Agassiz. A 

 Tribolite, Paradoxides Harlani ? from Braintree, showing the skin-markings of 

 the under surface of the head ; by Charles Stodder. A specimen of Coal, from 

 nine miles below the Kanawha River, Va. ; by Dr. A. A. Hayes. Lithia-mica, and 

 Tourmalines in Mica, from Paris, Me. ; by Dr. S. Kneeland, Jr. Dendritic Im- 

 pressions in Clay Slate, from Jamaica Plain; by F. Balch. Two specimens of 

 Ilyas coarciata, from Halifax, N. S.; 2 specimens of Jiefo, from the Isle of Wight; 

 3 Echinoderms; by Dr. A. A. Gould. 



May 5. A male specimen of the Black-masked Ruddy Duck, £rismaiura 

 Dominica, shot on the borders of Lake Champlain; and an European Widgeon, 

 Marec.a pendope; by Henry D. Morse. The brain of a Chimpanzee; by Dr. J. 

 M. Warren. 



May 19. Cranium of a Rhinoceros Hornbill, Buceros rhinoceros ; by Charles 

 B. Fessenden. Shells from Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie, by Samuel Tufts, Jr. 



June 2. A Snapping Turtle, Chdydra serpentina, weighing 22 lbs., from the 

 Mississippi River, in Minnesota; by William M. Wallace. 



June 16. Larva, pupa, and perfect insect of the Apple-tree Borer, Saperda 

 biviiiaia ; by Theodore Lyman. 11 specimens of Massachusetts Birds; by E. 

 Samuels. 



BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE QUARTER ENDING JUNE 30, 1858. 



Edinburgh New Philosophical Jouimal. New series. Nos. 10, 13. 8vo. Ed 

 inburgh, 1852-8. From Prof. H. D. Rogers. 



On some Modified Results attending the Decomposition of Bituminous Coals 

 by Heat. 8vo. Pamph. By Dr. A. A. Hayes. From ihe Autlim: 



First Supplement to Dana's Mineralogy. By the Author. 8vo. Pamph. 

 1858. From ihe Author. 



Materia Medica, or Pharmacology and Therapeutics. By Wm. TuUy, M. D. 

 Vol. I. Parts 1, 2. 8vo. Springfield, 1857. Fro7n J. N. Borland, M. D. 



Flora and Fauna of Williamstown, Mass. By P. A. Chadbourne. 8vo. 

 Pamph. pp. 15. From the AiUhor. 



De Pollinis Orchidearum Genesi, &c. Auct. H. G. Reichenbaeh. 4to. 

 Lipsiffi, 1851. 



Flora Upsaliensis. A Geor. Wahlenberg. 8vo. Upsaliaj, 1820. By.Exchancie 

 with C. J. Spraguefor Payer's Cryptogamic Botany. 



