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20 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
Gustave Fischer, M.D., Prof. John T. Hodgen, and Mr. Richard 
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Donations of books and specimens were presented as follows; 
Decade II. of the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great ~ 
Britain, by Dr. Shumard; three volumes of Congressional docu- 
ments from the Hon. Luther M. Kennett, by Dr. Shumard; a 
specimen of eyeless fish (.4mblyopsis astacus) from the Mam- 
moth Cave, Ky., of petroleum from Arkansas, and rock salt and 
other minerals from Hallam, near Salzburgh, by Prof. C. A. Pope; 
an interesting collection of fossils from Nebraska Ter., 4mmon- 
ites from the Cretaceous formation in Arkansas, and other fossil 
remains from various parts of the United States, by Prof. M. M. 
Pallen; specimens of Productus from the Carboniferous limestone 
of St. Louis, by Dr. Pope; a chrysalis and butterfly ( Papilio), by 
Dr. Engelmann; and some mounted specimens of birds ( Phala- 
a serie = st ae s Races 
: July 14, 1856. 
