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|reen carbonate and pyrites at Sing Sing, a few miles from 

 the city. 



Sept. 29. — New localities of epidote and fluor spar at 

 St. Albans, and Bellows Falls Vermont, were an- 

 nounced by Prof Hall of Middlebury college. Prof. 



Ijamouroux of Caen, France, was elected an Honorary 

 Member. A paper on the Clupea hudsonia, a new species.^ 

 xvas read by De Witt Clinton, accompanied by a drawing. 

 Inseited p. 49 of the Annals. 



Oct. 6. — Mr. J. Cozzens communicated a paper on the 

 ftcid of the Rhus glub rum, with observations on the juice of the 

 Sambucus canadensis as a delicate test. Vide p. 42 of the 

 Aimais. Dr. Van Rensselaer read a letter from Judge 

 M'Kean relative to the recent mortality among the fishes in 

 certain fresh water ponds near Poughkeepsie- 



Oct. 13. —The President read a description, accompanied 

 by specimens, of a neNv species of Gorgonia, and also of a spe- 

 cies of Pavonia, from Hell Gate. Dr. Dekay offered a com- 

 munication on some singular fossils in the Cabinet of the Ly" 

 ceum^ labelled Bilobiies. Inserted p. 45 of the Annals. 



Oct. 20. —Professor Renwick read an examination of a 

 "mineralfrom New- Jersey, to which he gave the name of Tor- 

 relite. Inserted p. 37 of the Annals. Wm. J. Hooker of 

 Crlasgow, and R. K. Greville of Edinburgh, Scotland, were 

 elected honorary members. 



Oct. 27. — ^The President delivered a discourse introduc- 

 tory to the lectures for the ensuing winter. Dr. Dekay read 

 "a paper on several trilobites now in the Cabinet of the Ly- 

 ceum. 



Nov. 10. — Dr. Dekay presented a specimen of a singular 

 crustaceous animal, (Phyllosoma) taken in Lat. 42° N. This 

 is supposed to be the first instance in which this animal has 

 been found in so high a latitude. It appears to be specifi- 

 cally distinct from the four species described by Leach ia 

 the appendix toTuckey's expedition to the Congo. 



Nov. 17. — Dr. Dekay read a paper on animal torpidity, 

 founded on his own observations on the animals of this 

 country. The President read a communication on the teeth 

 of the Megatherium, now for the first time discovered in the 

 United States : in a previous paper the learned President had 

 conjectured it to be the Anoplotherium, but a more minute 

 examination had resulted in ascertaining it to be the Megathe^ 

 tium resembling that of Paraguay. 



