702 TRANS. OF THB ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
des Vereins des Naturg. in Meklenburg, XITI. Jahrg, from 
the Society ; Mittheil. aus dem Osterlande, Altenburg, Band 
V., 1856, from the Society; Wohnsitze der Brachiopo- 
den von Prof. Edward Suess, Wien, 1859, from the Author ; 
Entomol. Zeitung, Stettin, XX Jahrg. 1859, from the Society ; 
Correspondenzblatt des Naturf. Vereins, Riga, X. Jahrg. 
1858, from the Society ; Jour. Frank. Institute, Philad., April, 
1860, from the Institute; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad., 
March, 1860, from the Academy; Proc. California Acad. Nat. 
Sciences, 1858--9, from the Academy; Catalogue of Flora of 
i Hall & Lapham, 1860, from the Authors. 
A paper presented for publication by B. F. Shumard, M.D., 
being a “Notice of Meteoric Iron from Texas,” now deposited 
in the State Geological Cabinet at Austin, was read by the 
Corresponding Secretary. Referred to a committee. 
A paper presented for publication by B. F. Shumard, M.D., 
State Geologist of the State of Texas, entitled “ Descriptions 
of new Cretaceous Fossils from Texas,” was read by the Cor- 
responding Secretary. Referred to a committee. 
On motion, it was ordered, that the Corresponding Secre- 
tary be authorized to cause a specimen of the mass of meteo- 
ric iron from Nebraska, now in the possession of the Acade- 
my, to be cut off and presented to Prof. C. U. Shepard of 
New Haven. _ ; 
r. Pope presented a piece of lava from Mt. Vesuvius, hay- 
ing a copper coin of modern date embedded in it. 
May 21, 1860. 
Vice-President Dr. ENGELMANN in the chair. 
Six members present. ‘ 
A circular letter was read from the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, dated May, 1860, relating to the transmission OF ex- 
changes to Europe. 
The Corresponding Secretary communicated the substance 
of a letter which had been addressed to him by Prof. W. Hat- 
dinger, Director of the Imperial Geological Institute of Vien- 
na, dated the 20th April, 1860, requesting, for the Imperial 
Mineralogical Museum at Vienna, a specimen of the meteorié 
iron found in Nebraska Territory, and now deposited in the 
Museum of the Academy; and, also, containing a list of the 
additions which had been made to the Vienna catalogue of 
Meteorites (now the largest in the world) since the last pub- 
lication of the same, as follows: Stones—Nov. 30, 1822, 
Allahabad; Nov. 30, 1850, Shalka in Bauwora; Mareh 6, 
