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2. Proceedings of the Lyceum of JVatural History of JVew York. 



(Continued from page 160.) 



June, 1830. — A number of interesting minerals and fossils, Amer- 

 ican and foreign, were presented to the cabinet by Dr. Gale, Dr. 

 JBibby, and the President ; a collection of Austrian plants, by Baron 

 Lederer ; and by Professor Ravenel, of Charleston, S. C, a suite of 

 shells from our southern coasts, among which were several rare spe- 

 cies. The thirty-third Volume of the Memoirs of the Royal Acade- 

 my of Turin, with other essays, were received from that institution, 

 and from various members. Dr. L. Perez was elected a resident, 

 and Mr. J. Barrabino, of New Orleans, a corresponding member. 



July. — Mr. Irving, of the U. S. Navy, presented a number of vol- 

 canic and mineral productions, from various islands in the Pacific 

 Ocean. Mr. J. Cozzens exhibited a recent specimen of that rare 

 fish, the Silurus marinus of Mitchill's memoir on the fishes of New 

 York, and communicated some verbal remarks upon it. Several 

 new scientific works were received from European correspondents, 

 and many valuable additions to the cabinet. 



August. — Mr. Cooper made a verbal report on several shells of 

 the family of Naiades, from Cumberland River, Tenn., received from 

 Dr. Troost. Two species, supposed to be new, and peculiarly char- 

 acterized, will be described by Mr. Lea, of Philadelphia, in a me- 

 moir which he is preparing on several new species of this family. 

 Mr. Lea presented a collection of African and American shells, ma- 

 rine and fluviatile. Mr. Hayden, of Baltimore, and Messrs. Coz- 

 zens and Richards, presented geological and mineral specimens, from 

 various parts of the United States. 



Dr. Feuchtwanger communicated a paper, wherein he arranges 

 several analyzed minerals according to the electro-chemical system 

 of Berzelius. Mr. Cooper exhibited No. 84 of the " Recueil de 

 Planches Coloriees " of Temminck, in which this ornithologist has 

 described and figured, (PI. 495) the Falco atricapillus o^ Wilson, as 

 an entirely new species, under the name oi Falco regalis. His rea- 

 son for this seems to be, that Cuvier has given the name of atrica- 

 pillus to another species of the same genus. But this was not until 

 several years after the publication of Wilson's Ornithology, whose 

 appellation must therefore be retained for our bird, which now seems 



