270 PROCEEDINGS OF [1842. 



Stated Meeting, December 12, 1842. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced the following contribu- 

 tions and deposites : 



Foi' the Cabinet. 



Fossil Shells and a Bone, cf the Rledial Tertiary Forn)ation, 

 Patuxent River, Maryland. — From Joseph Simms, St. Mary's 

 County. 



Dried Flower, in seed, from Chimboiazo. — From Seth Sweetzer, 

 U. S. Consul, Guayaquil. 



Box of Copper Ores, &c., Sic, &;c., from the mines of Oroa. — 

 From Franklin Litchfield, U. S. Consul, Puerto Cabello. 



Box of Dried Flowers and Plants, &c., &c., (list with letter,) Be- 

 douin Sabre with Sheath, Bedouin Shield made of Rhinorceros' 

 hide. — From J. Henshaw Belcher. 



Box containing Hieroglyphical Slab of Stone, from Palenque, Central 

 America. — From Charles Russell, Consul of the United States 

 at Laguna, Isla del Carmen, Mexico. 



Box containing Fused Musket Barrel, from the Tower of London. — 

 From Lieut. fV. R. Palmer, U. S. Top. Engineers. 



Franklin Press, being the original press at which Dr. Franklin work- 

 ed. — From John B. Murray, New York. 



Box of Fossils, &,c., from the coal mines near Richmond, Virginia, 

 with a Journal of Minutes kept in the mine. — From A. S. fVool- 

 dridgc. 



Box Stalactites, Stalagmites, fcc, from Howe's Cave, Schoharie, 

 New York. — From Giles F. Yates. 



One specimen Meleagris gallopavo, (Wild Turkey,) from Maryland. 

 —From Col. P. Force. 



One specimen Echinus ; one specimen Dromia ; three specimens 

 Spongia, &c., from the Sandwich Islands. — From John K. Town- 

 send. 



Fringilla, from Bermuda. — From Mrs. Lenox, Washington. 



Myrmecophaga, (Ant-eater,) from South America. — From J. J. 

 Drake, Neiv York. 



Arvicoia xanthognata, from Maryland. — From Peter Naylor, Wash- 

 ing im. 



Par^aria cucullata. — From Don Carlo Paperini. 



Indian Robe, from the vicinity of Green Bay, Michigan. — From M. 

 J. McClery, Washington. 



Human Skeleton, (INegro.) — From O. P. Thackara, Philadelphia. 



Horse-Shoe Fish. — From Daniel Campbell. 



Hornet's iVest. — From James A. Cooper. 



Vegeiablc Impressions on Slate, from the coal mines of Pennsylvania. 

 — From Robert B. Boyd. 



Thirty-nine Indian Arrow-heads, from near Rock Creek, George- 



