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found in that city. Ohio Observer, Feb. 2d, 1843, containing a let- 
ter from Mr. E. Andrews to Prof. Barrows, Hudson.—The Consti- © 
tution, Middletown, Dec. 1842, from Dr. Barratt, containing an ac- 
ount of the hard winter of 1779-80; from the same source, a no- 
tice of the various floods in Connecticut river.—Newark Daily Ad- 
vertiser, May 2, 1842, from Prof. Henry, with a notice of the com- 
et.—Indiana Statesman, Jan. 1843.—Georgia Messenger, Macon, 
June, 1843, from S. T. Bailey, with a notice of the phenomenon 
SPECIMENS. 
~_ Orthis, three miles below Rochester, Genessee River. From 
Samuel Griswold, Mumfordville, N. Y. : pa ba 
A suit of Pliocene Shells from the Tertiary of Italy, near Pied- 
mont. From M. Avocat Jean Michelotti, a Turin. 
~ “A series. of Ammonites cornutus, from’ the Kimmeridge Clay ; 
and sundry other interesting fossils.. From Dr. G. A. Mantel. ° 
. A suit of fossils from Mount Lebanon, Syria, embracing some in- 
teresting fishes, similar to those from the yellow limestone of Monte 
Bolca, Italy. From Rev. E. R. Beadle. bbe > ae 
