372 Domestic Intelligence. 
A valuable collection of insects, consisting of five hundred 
and twenty-five specimens, chiefly of the orders coleoptua 
and lepidoplua, from Professor Zincken Sommer, physician 
to the court of Brunswick. 
Specimens of minerals from Col. G. Gibbs, among which 
were native gold from Siberia, fluate of lime from New-Jer- 
sey, and granular corundum from Naxos. 
Organic remains from Werberg, near the Weser in Ger- 
many, from Rev. F. Schaeffer. 
Numerous minerals from Professor Geimar, of Halle, 
with a catalogue. 
Organic remains, consisting of vertebrae of fish and ceta- — 
cea, bivalves and recent bones of some unknown animal, 
from Dr. William Swift. : 
Hortus cryptogamicus Edinensis No. 1, an herbarium of 
eryptogamic plants, growing near Edinburgh, (Scotland) 
presented by J. Stewart, lecturer on botany in that city. 
_ Specimens beautifully prepared of the anas acuta, oF 
pintail duck, (Wilson) by the late Mr. Clements. 
‘Organic remains from’ Corlaer’s Hook, and a specimen 
supposed to be oolite, never before discovered in this coun- 
try, by Mr. Cozzens. 
Valuable collection of American minerals, among which 
radiated zeolite, from Westchester, &c. by W. R. Clapp, 
corresponding member. 
[It is feared that, owing to the illegibility of the MS. some 
errors may have crept into the above “ abstract.”—Ep.] 
American Geological Society. 
The anniversary meeting was held in the cabinet of Yale 
College ; and the officers of the last year were re-elected, 
with the exception of Mr. T. D. Porter, who, in conse- 
quence of removal to a distant state, resigned the office of 
Secretary, and Dr. Alfred S. Monson, of New-Haven, was 
elected in his stead. ' 
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