364 Miscellanies. 



the craniological similarity manifested between them is too striking 

 to permit us to question their national identity. There is in both, 

 the same coronal elevation, occipital compression, lateral protuber- 

 ance accompanied with the frontal depression, which marks the 

 American variety in general. Insomuch that were it possible to 

 exfoliate, if I may so say, the fossil relics from their incrustation, 

 the vacancies might be filled with the corresponding parts taken 

 from the head of the Peruvian. Placing the maxillary fragment in 

 apposition to the corresponding opposite alveolar row of this head, 

 the physiognomy is such as to lead the imagination to view it as a 

 fac simile of the original. James Moultrie. 



MISCELLANIES. - 



DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 



1. Annual Report of the Curators of the Boston Society of JYat- 

 ural History. — Read at the Annual Meeting, May 1st, 1837; by D. 

 Humphreys Storer, M. D. 



Your committee to whose duty it has fallen to report upon the 

 state of the cabinet, takes great pleasure in congratulating the society 

 upon its unprecedented prosperity. At no previous period have so 

 many additions been made to our collections ; or so much labor been 

 bestowed by the curators upon their respective departments. Our 

 hall has become a favorite resort for the community at large, and the 

 naturalist finds here rich materials for study and improvement. 



The number of donations the past year is one hundred and sixty, 

 the number of donors one hundred ; of these, we cannot refrain from 

 mentioning the names of Mrs. A. A. Shattuck and Mrs. Thomas 

 Say, and those of Messrs. Amos Lawrence, B. D. Greene, S. A. El- 

 iott, David Eckley, Geo. B. Emerson, G. C. Shattuck, G. C. Shat- 

 tuck, Jr. Wm. Ingalls, George Parkman, Charles Amory, Professor 

 Hitchcock, Horace Gray, James Jackson, Francis C. Gray, Jona- 

 than Phillips, John Randall, David Henshaw, J. J. Dixwell and J. B. 

 Higginson. 



The principal donations to the several departments, are as follows: 



In Mineralogy and Geology. — A beautiful specimen of opalized 

 wood from Hobarisiown, S. S. Volcanic specimens from Fayal 



