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BOSTON SOCIETY OP NATURAL HISTORY. Proceedings, vol. xiii, sig. 10, 11. 



LEEDS PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY SOCIETY. Forty-iiinth Report of the 

 Council at the Close of the Session, 1868-9. 



MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION. Eleventh Exhibition 

 at Faueuil and Quincy Halls, Boston, September and October, 1869. 



NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN GESELLSCHAFT zu CHEMNITZ. Erster Bericht der 

 nattmvissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Chemnitz, 1859-1868, 2 pamphlets, 8vo, 

 Chemnitz, 1865, 168. 



NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Historic Progress and American Democ- 

 racy; an address by J. L. Motley, 8vo pamph., New York, 1869. 



NEW YORK LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Annals for December, 1869. 



PUBLISHERS. American Journal of Numismatics. American Literary Gazette. 

 American Publisher and Bookseller. Book Buyer. Canadian Naturalist. Chris- 

 tian World. Cosmos. Eclectic. Essex Banner. Gardener's Monthly. Glouces- 

 ter Telegraph. Hardwick's Science Gossip. Haverhill Gazette. Journal de Con- 

 chyliologie. Land and Water. Lawrence American. Lynn Reporter. Medical 

 and Surgical Reporter. Nation. Peabody Press. 



SOCIETE DE PHYSIQUE ET B'HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE GENEVE. Memoires de 

 la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve. Tomes, xix, xx, 1868-69, 

 4 to. 



VEREIN FUR NATURKUNDE zu MANNHEIM. Funfunddreissigster Jahresbericht 

 des Mannheimer Vereins fur Naturkunde. Erstattet in der General- Versammlung 

 vom 20 February, 1869. 







The Superintendent announced the Donations to the Museums of 

 the Institute and Academy. 



Prof. F. H. BRADLEY. Fossils of the Clintons, from Indiana. 



EDWARD E. CHEVER. Fossil wood, from near Colorado (the place is known as 

 ' the Petrified Trees). 



WM. S. COOK, Salem. Chinese Copper Coin of the new Hong Kong currency; 

 value one mill, 



Dr. EASTMAN, Washington, D. C. Larva of a Wood Boring Beetle, from a de- 

 cayed Chestnut stump near that place. 



J. P. LEAVITT, Beverly. A Water Jar, from Palermo. 



B. W. PATCH, Hamilton. Stone Axe and Arrowhead, from Hamilton. 



HENRY W. PEABODY, Salem. Musk Deer, from Java. 



L. H. P., Portsmouth, N. H. Two dried plants, from San Francisco, Cal. 



J. L. RUSSELL, Salem. Hottentots Figs (Fruit of the Mesembryanthemum aci 

 mifolium). 



The PRESIDENT stated that Mr. Charles Davis of Beverly, an asso- 

 ciate member, died very suddenly at his residence, on Friday last, 

 and that several officers and members of the Institute had attended 

 the funeral this afternoon. 



The deceased having always taken a deep interest in the objects of 

 the Institute, and having been for several years an active member, and 

 one of its officers, it is highly proper that suitable notice should be 

 taken of this sad and melancholy event. 



On motion of Mr. JAMES KIMBALL, a committee of three, consisting 

 of Messrs. W. P. TJpham, James Kimball and R. E. Endicott, was ap- 



