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MONDAY, MARCH 20. Regular meeting. 



Vice President Goodell in the chair. 

 Letters were read from : 



Lyceum of Natural History of New York, acknowledging the receipt 

 of publications : Boston Society of Natural History, acknowledging 

 the receipt of a collection of plants, collected in Zanzibar, by Caleb 

 Cooke : Amos Noyes of Newburyport, accepting Membership. 



Donations to the Library and Museum were announced. 



A. C. Goodell Jr. read a paper entitled the u Cavalier 

 and the Puritan." This will be published in a separate 

 form. 



John Daland of Salem, and Eben F. Stone of Newbury- 

 port were elected Resident Members. 



Additions to the Museum and Library daring January, 

 February, and March, 1865. 



TO THE NATURAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT. 



BY DONATION. 



ALLEN, FRANCIS R., Hamilton, Fresh specimen of Bald Eagle, Hali- 

 cBtus leucocephalus , shot in Hamilton, Jan. 20. 



ALLEN, J. A., Cambridge. Specimens of a Red and of a Black species 

 of Ant, and the pupa of the Black species ; taken from an army of the 

 Red species, Springfield, Mass., July 30, 1864. 



BABBIDGE, OHAS. H. Chalcopyrite from Cheticamp, N. S. 



BABCOCK, A. L., Sherborn, Mass. 9 specimens, 7 species, Insects ; 

 Skin of Sciurus hudsonius ; skeletons and parts of skeletons of 3 species 

 of native Birds; specimen of Anodonta fluviatilis, from Sherborn. 



BUTTRICK, S. B. Portion of the jaw of a Porpoise. Water Beetle, Dy- 

 tiscus sp. , from South Salem. ' T - 



BOLLES, REV. E. C., Portland, Me. 7 specimens of Anodonta edentula 

 Lea, A. Ferussaciana Lea, Unio iris Lea and U. calceolus Lea from Mil- 

 waukee, Wis. 3 specimens Mya arenaria from the Postpleiocene at 

 Gardiner, Me. 3 specimens Coleoptera from Africa. 



GARY, GEO. A. 2 specimens of Tellena from Turk's Island. 



CHAMBERLAIN, JAMES A. 2 Holothurians, dry. 



CHICAGO ACADEMY or NATURAL SCIENCES, Chicago, 111. Skins of 8 spe- 

 cies of Mammals and 64 species of Birds from the West and North. 36 

 species, 51 specimens of Western Bird's eggs. 



DAVIS, CHARLES, Beverly. Egg of an African Ostrich. 



