390 Kezt}-York Lyceum of Natural History. 



Nov. 24. — Dr Torrey read a notice of the discovery for 

 the first (imrinlhe United States, of Yenite. Inserted p 51 

 of the Annals. 



Dec 1. — (/aptain ho. Conte of the U. S. topographical 

 engineers presented a new species of Siren with a detailed 

 description, and dbservnlions o)i animals of a sinvilar nature.— 

 Inserted p. 52of Jie Annals 



Dec. 8. — The R"v L. D. dv Schweinilz presented to 

 the Society an. analytical table to facilitate the detcrmin.ation of 

 the hitherto observed North ^Imerlcan species of thf genus 

 Carex. Inserted p. 62 01" the Annals. Dr. Aierly, read a 

 paper on (he Ven.iis merer naria or common cl;im, with details 

 respv cting their manners and habits and observations on the 

 article termed IVampum munufactured from these shells. 



January 3, 1824. — Capt. Le ('onte communicated a paper 

 entitled observations on the. North Jimerican species of the 

 genus Utricnlaria. inserted p. 72 of the Annals. 



January 12. — Dr. Dekay r .id an analysis of a work in 

 manuscript entitled Toxicologic des Antilles par J B. Madi- 

 anna, M. D. Royal Physician for the island of Guada- 

 loupe. The President read a paper on the organic remains 

 of the region nearTappan. The specimens presented were 

 found in sandstone, but were (oo comminuted to determine 

 the class to which they b<-loiiged. 



January 19. -Major Delafi. Id presented a series of geolo- 

 gical specimens, illustratinii; the rock formutions from Niaga- 

 ra throui:h the northern shores of the 2;reai lakes to the lake 

 of the Woods- This interesting collection was accompanied 

 by a paper entitled notices of new localities of simple mine- 

 rals along the north coast of lake Superior and in the Inilian 

 Territory from lake Snperior to the river ^Vinnipec. In- 

 serted p. 79 of the Annals. 



Feb. 3. — The President exhibited for the inspection of 

 the members a singular fi-lf, \fiil\i a memoi entitled Descrip- 

 tion of the Sacropharynx fagellum. Inserted p. 82 of the 

 Annals. 



Y{'h. 17. — Or. Dekay communicated a paper entitled, 

 observn'ions onthi Stylephorus chordatus of Shaw !n this 

 paper ih-' author endeavoured to show that M. Blainville-'s 

 observations on this animal, as detailed in the Journal de 

 physique, though ingenious, are not sufficient to prove the 

 Stylephorus to be unaltered Fistularia or Syngnathus. It 

 was also attempted to show that the Saccopharynx of the 



