206 Miscellanies. 



October 13. — The cabinet received donations from Mr. Minifie 

 and Dr. Coale. — Charles Cramer, Esq. of New York, presented a 

 catalogue of plants growing in the vicinity of Troy ; and the Report 

 of the Geological Society of Brussels. — Dr. Edmondson reported a 

 table of Meteorological Observations for August, 1836. — Dr. J. W. 

 Greetham reported a table of observations made at Mt. Vernon, Illi- 

 nois, for June and July, 1836, both of which were referred to the 

 section of Physics. — The chairman of the section cf Botany re- 

 ported progress in the arrangement of plants referred to that sec- 

 tion. — Dr. Aikin was appointed to lecture at the sitting of the 27th 

 inst. 



October 20.— Dr. Coale presented the skeleton of a wren. — The 

 section of Physics reported upon the tables referred at the last sit- 

 ting, embracing in the report, suggestions of some modifications, 

 which were approved by the Academy. — The section of Mineralogy 

 reported the receipt of a suite of geological specimens from Heidel- 

 burg, and that they had been placed in the cabinet. 



October 27. — Donations for the caljinet, fi'om Mr. Quinby, Dr. 

 Coale, Dr. ZollickhofFer, and the Maryland Colonization Society. — 

 The remainder of the session was occupied by an interesting lecture 

 from Mr. Quinby, on the mineralogy of the ancients, which was lis- 

 tened to with much attention, and a copy requested from the author 

 for preservation in the library. 



JYovember 3. — Dr. Coale presented for the cabinet the skin of a 

 monkey, tanned by the natives of Cape Palmas. — Donations for the 

 library from Prof. Ducatel, Dr. Dunbar, Prof. W. R. Johnson, of 

 Philadelphia, and Com. Figaniere. — Dr. Aikin delivered a lecture 

 on the anatomy of plants. — Dr. Henry P. Sartwell, of Penn Yan, 

 N. Y., was elected a corresponding member. — Mr. Fisher informed 

 the Academy that the arsenlate of baryta, recommended by him at a 

 former meeting, he had since ascertained should be employed only 

 when the use of powdered arsenic was impossible — hence its use 

 should be confined to the preservation of the plumage of birds. — 

 Mr. Fisher was appointed to read a paper at the following sitting, 

 and Prof. Ducatel at the succeeding one. 



JVovember 10. — Dr. Coale presented the prepared skeleton of a 

 " Corvus crestata." — Mr. Fisher read a paper on the present state of 

 Pharmacy in the United States. — J. J. Audubon was elected an 

 honorary member of the Academy. 



