364 Miscellanies. 
the craniological similarity manifested between them is too striking 
to permit us to question their national identity. There is in both, 
the same coronal elevation, occipital compression, lateral protuber- 
ance accompanied with the frontal depression, which marks the 
American variety in general. Insomuch that were it possible to 
exfoliate, if I may so say, the fossil relics from their incrustation, 
the vacancies might be filled with the corresponding parts taken 
from the head of the Peruvian. Placing the maxillary fragment in 
apposition to the corresponding opposite alveolar row of this head, 
the physiognomy is such as to lead the imagination to view it as a 
fac simile of the original. James Mou.rrie. 
MISCELLANTES. 
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 
1. Annual Report of the Curators of the Boston Society of Nat- 
ural History.—Read at the Annual Meeting, May Ist, 1837; by D. 
Houmenreys Storer, M.D. 
Your committee to whose duty it has fallen to report upon the 
state of the cabinet, takes great pleasure in congratulating the society 
upon its unprecedented prosperity. At no previous period have so 
many additions been made to our collections; or so much labor been 
bestowed by the curators upon their respective departments. Our 
hall has become a favorite resort for the community at large, and the 
naturalist finds here rich materials for study and improvement. 
The number of donations the past year is one hundred and sixty, 
the number of donors one hundred ; of these, we cannot refrain from 
mentioning the names of Mrs. A. A. Shattuck and Mrs. Thomas 
Say, and those of Messrs. Amos Lawrence, B. D. Greene, S. A. El- 
iott, Dayid Eckley, Geo. B. Emerson, G. C. Shattuck, G. C. Shat- 
tuck, Jr. Wm. Ingalls, George Parkman, Charles Amory, Professor 
Hitchcock, Horace Gray, James Jackson, Francis C. Gray, Jona- 
than Phillips, John Randall, David Henshaw, J. J. Dixwell and J. B. 
Higginson. 
_ The principal donations to the several departments, are as follows: 
In eearolery and Geology.—A beautiful specimen of opalized 
veo from Hobartstown, S.S. Volcanic nscunatins from Fayal 
