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craft and Geo. Johnson, from the same region. Among them 
were Falco furcatus, F. cooperu, Corvus pica, Tetruo albus, 
Ardea exilis, Testudo serpentina. Dr. Darlington, of West 
hester, Penn., a corresponding member, communicated a 
paper entitled “ Description of the Prunus Americana,” with 
a drawing illustrating the same. Mr. Cooper, from the spe- 
cial Committee made a report on the magnificent work of 
Audubon upon the Birds of North America, which was exhibit- 
ed at a former meeting. The President announced that he had 
received from Prof. Zipzer of Neusohl, Hungary, and arranged 
in the cabinet, one hundred geological specimens. They con- 
sist of a great variety of porphyries, trachytes, and other vol- 
canic rocks, as well as fossils, illustrating the geology of a very 
interesting part of Hungary. The Corresponding Secretary 
read a letter from Mr. Schoolcraft, announcing his intention of 
visiting the Upper Mississippi, as far possibly as the Porcupine 
Mountains, and offering to make any inquiries the Lyceum 
may suggest. Information was also received of a proposed 
private expedition up the Rio del Norte, Mexico. The 
of rocks, having an invariable N. N. W. and §S. 8S. E. direc- 
tion, and supposed to have been caused by the agency of an 
overwhelming current. The writer indicated several locali- 
ty ounces of silver to the ton—Ji. John L Glover was elect- 
ed a Resident Member. 
