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PORTLAND SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. Proceedings, vol. J, pages t)~ to 

 128 incl. 



PUBLISHERS. North American Review for July, 1864. 



QUEBEC LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Transactions, New Se- 

 ries, vol. i, Nos. 1 and 2. 



WILMINGTON (DEL.) INSTITUTE. Annual Report April, 1864, 8vo, paraph. 



MONDAY, OCTOBER 10. Evening meeting. 



The President, A. Hunting-ton, in the chair. 



Records of previous meeting read and donations to the 

 Museum and Library were announced. 

 Letters were read from the following : 



Chas. H. Lake, of Little Rock, Arkansas; J. A. Allen, of Springfield; W. 

 H. Dall, of Marquette Co. Mich., relating to donations of specimens: J. H. 

 Hickcox, of the New York State Library, Albany ; S. J.. Young, Librarian 

 of Bowdoiu College ; Secretary of the American Philosophical Society, Phil- 

 adelphia, relating to exchanges of publications : Prof. S. F. Baird ; J. H. 

 Thompson, of New Bedford ; Sam'l Clarke, of Milwaukee, Wis., relating to 

 the Naturalists' 1 Directory : Miss Lucy Tread well, of Salem ; Miss A. L 

 Coffin, of Newbury ; J. E. Oliver, of Lynn ; J. W. Young, of Worcester ; S. 

 Tenney, of Cambridge ; James Lewis, of Mohawk, N. Y. ; Rev. E. C. Bolles, 

 of Portland, on business matters : A. L. Babcock, of Sherborn ; Dr. A. S. 

 Packard Jr., of Brunswick, Me. ; Theo. Gill, of Washington ; W. Hoxie, 

 of Newburyport, relating to exchange of specimens. 



Albert B. Russell, and Miss Lucy Treadwell, of Salem, 

 and Theodore Attwill, of Lynn, having been nominated 

 at a previous meeting were elected Resident Members. 



Mr. Putnam communicated a paper from Mr. Alpheus 

 Hyatt Jr., entitled " Remarks on the Polyzoa of New Eng- 

 land " In this paper, which was referred to the committee 

 on publication, Mr. Hyatt describes and figures several 

 new species of CristateUa and Plumatella from Cambridge, 

 Mass., and Norway, Me. For these species he proposes 

 the names of C. ophidioidea, P. Jiyalina and P. pennisseivas- 

 seensis. Mr. Hyatt also describes the anatomy of the 

 genera CristateUa and Pectinatella and discusses their 

 relations, as naked Polyzoa, to the remaining genera of 

 the sub-order Lophopea. 



