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Messrs. Squier and Davis were correct, there could be no reasonable 
doubt. 
Dr. Prout presented, in the name of Mr. C. A. White of Bur- 
lington, Iowa, several species of fossils, some of them new, 
from the Chemung group of the Devonian at Burlington, viz: 
Nucleospira Barristi, Chonetes Logani, Productus arcuatus, 
humardianus, P. levicostus, Rhunchonella pustulosa, Orthis 
Thiemii, Athyris crassicardinalis, and Onychocrinus exculptus. 
Wm. J. Sloan, M.D., Surgeon U. 8. A., Corresponding Sec- 
retary of the Historical Society of Santa Fé, was elected a 
Corresponding Member. 
May 7, 1860. 
Vice-President Dr. EnGeLMANN in the chair. 
Thirteen members present. ee 
Letters were read from the Naturf. Verein, Riga; Ver- 
ein fiir vaterlind. Naturf. in Wiirttemberg, Stuttgart ; Phar- 
maceutical Society, St. Louis,—severally acknowledging the 
receipt of the Transactions of the Academy. 
Donations to the Library were announced as follows: 
Bulletin de la Soc. Imp. zool. d’Acclim., Paris, Tome Vil. 2, 
Vereins fir Naturw. zu Hermannstadt, IX. Jahrg. 1859, X. 
Bericht des ne - 
1857--8, from the Society ; 
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Dr. J. Th. Held,—Festschrift,—V erzeichniss der ee 
Trilobiten, Prag, 1807,--Geograph: Breite von Prag, 1857,— 
eibnitz u. Comenius, von Dr. F. V. Kve fs 
Porphyre im Silurgebirge von Mittelbdhmen, Prag, 6 a 
from Dr. W. R. Weitenweber ; Sitzgungsb. der. K. bohm. ee 
der Wissensch. in Prag, Jahrg. 1859, Jan.—-June, fr - “ie - 
ciely ; Bull. de la Soc. Linnéenne de Normandie, ; 0 ty» 
1859, from the Society ; Wirttemb. naturw. Jahreshe bay’ i 
Jahrg., 1 Heft, Stuttgart, 1860, from the Society; Archiv 
