Prof. Benjamin Silliman; Prof. James D. Dana; Prof. W. H. Brewer, 

 and Prof. George J. Brush, of New Haven, Ct. ; A. E. E. Agassiz, of Cam- 

 bridge; Prof. Joseph Leidy; Dr. John L. LeConte; Isaac Lea, LL.D., and 

 T. A. Conrad, of Philadelphia, Pa. ; Protessor Joseph Henry, Sect. Smithso- 

 nian Institution; Prof. Jared P. Kirtland, of Eockport, Ohio; and Thomas 

 Bland, Esq., of New York, were elected Corresponding members. 



MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1866. 

 Vice President GOODELL in the Chair. 



Letters were read from G. C. Broadhcad, Pleasant Hill, Mo.; Maj. Gen. 

 Alfred Sully, U. S. A., Clinton, Iowa; Dr. A. S. Packard, Boston Society of 

 Natural History; F. G. Sanhorn, State Cabinet, Boston; John Akhurst, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Edward Pickering, Boston ; Prof. John P. Marshall, Tufts' 

 College ; W. H. Niles, New Haven, Ct. ; Eobert Howell, Nichols, N. Y. ; 

 Prof. J. W. DawEon, Montreal, Canada ; Dr. N. T. True, Bethel, Me. ; Prof. 



B. F. Mudge, Kansas State Agricultural College ; G. K. Gilbert, Eochester, 

 N. Y. ; Capt. Alpheus Hyatt, New York, N. Y. ; John G. Anthony, Asst. 

 Museum Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. ; T. A. Cheney. Havana, 

 N. Y. ; Prof. Charles S. Stone, Cooper Union, New York, N. Y. ; Prof. 

 Chas. E. Hamlin, Waterville College, Me.; Prof. J. P. Lesley, Univer- 

 sity of Penn. ; S. Jillson, Feltonville, Mass. ; James M. Shaw, South Water- 

 ford, Me.; James Lewis, Mohawk, N. Y.; W. M. Hunting, Fail-field, N. Y.; 

 Henry Englemann, Belleville, 111. ; Chas. D. Marshall, Corresp. Sect. Buffalo 

 Society Natural Sciences; Dr. E. W. Hubbard, Tottenville, N. Y. ; Abijiih 

 Bradley, New Haven. Ct.; James P. Kimball. New York, N. Y.; F. E. 

 Howlund, Irvington, N. Y. ; H. M. Bannister, Evanston. 111. ; J. D. Parker, 

 Steuben, Me. ; T. A. Conrad, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Col. E. B. Marcy, U. S. A. ; 

 Prof. Chr. Johnston, University of Md. ; Prof. W. D. Moore, Irwin's Sta- 

 tion, Pa. ; H. A. Green, Mt. Morris, N. Y. ; Prof. H. A. Ward, Eochester 

 University, N. Y. ; Prof. H. J. Clark, Cambridge ; Thomas Devine, Ottawa 

 City, Canada ; John Gebhard, Jr., Schoharie, N. Y. ; Henry Eousseau, Troy, 

 N. "Y.; U. S. Coast Survey; John G. Hotlgkins, Education Office, Toronto, 



C. W. ; Eichard Hamant, Worcester Society of Natural History; Albert!). 

 Hager, State Geologist of Vt. ; Prof. J. D/Dana, Yale College; Dr. A. M. 

 Leonard, Lockport, N. Y. ; U. S. Bureau of Navigation ; Dr. B. F. Shu- 

 mard, St. Louis, Mo.; Prof. E. J. Pickett, Attica, Ind. ; L. B. Case, Eich- 

 mond, Ind. ; A. Agassiz, Museum Comp. Zoology; Dr. Carl Eominger, Ann 

 Arbor, Mich.; A.M. Edwards, President Am. Microscopical Society, New 

 York; U. P. James, Cincinnati, Ohio; E. F. Cox, New Harmony, Ind.; 

 M. C. Fernald, South Levant, Me.; Dr. J. H. Slack, Philadelphia, Pa. ; J. 

 W.Foster, Chicago, 111. ; Prof. A. Litton, St. Louis Medical School; Al. 

 pheus Hyatt, Baltimore, Md. ; Prof. J. M. Snfford, State Geologist of Ten- 

 nessee, Nashville, Tenn. ; Prof. Theo. Gill, Smithsonian Institution ; H. M- 

 Eaynor, New York ; Prof. Joseph Henry, Sect. Smithsonian Institution ; Dr. 

 Charles Tufts, Dover, N. H. ; E. W. Hilgard, State Geologist of Miss., Ox- 

 ford. Miss.; New York Historical Society; Smithsonian Institution; New 

 England Historic-Genealogical Society ; Boston Mercantile Library 

 Association ; The President and Trustees of Bowdoin College ; Iowa State 



. Historical Society ; Chicago Historical Society; Jeremiah Colburn, Boston ; 

 Wm. Graves, Newburyport ; Capt. N. E. Atwood, Provincetown. 



Donations to the Library and Museum were announced. 



