Proceedings of the Neiv York Lyceum. 149 



President Delajield, on Minerals; Prof. Torrey, Phenogamous 

 plants; Mr. Halsey, Cryptogamous plants and Arachnides; Dr. 

 Dekay, Zoophytes, Fishes, Mammalia and Annelides; Maj. Leconte, 

 Insects; Mr. /. Cozzens, Crustacea; Mr. Cooper, Mollusca, Rep- 

 tiles and Birds. 



February. — Prof. McVickar presented, among other minerals, 

 specimens of Anthracite from the Great St. Bernard, found at a 

 height of one thousand feet above the Convent, (Hospice.) 



At the anniversary meeting, on the 2Sth inst., the following offi- 

 cers were elected for 1831. 



President, Joseph Delqfield ; 1st V. President, Abraham Halsey ; 

 2d V. President, Dr. J. E. Dekay ; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. 

 J. J^an Rensselaer ; Recording Sec'y> Dr. J.J. Graves; Treasu- 

 rer, Wm. Cooper ; Librarian, Dr. J. E. Dekay. 



March. — Mr. Cooper read a notice of several birds seen by him 

 in the neighborhood of the city of New York during the past winter, 

 which he stated were not usually noticed at that season. The same 

 gentleman read a communication from IMaj. Leconte, stating that he 

 had recently discovered two new species of Unio, and had heard of 

 four others, one of which is spinous. In plants, he had discovered 

 a new species of Thymus, and a new genus allied to Gerardia. 



J^ay. — Mr. Cooper, from the committee on the Catalogue, read a 

 Report on the Birds in the vicinity of the city of New York, accom- 

 panied by a catalogue of the species, with preliminary remarks on 

 their migration and geographical distribution. 



Mr. Cooper stated, that the large collection of bones recently dis- 

 interred at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, were then in the city, and 

 belonged to Messrs. Barber and Graves — that it contained fourteen 

 or fifteen tusks, ten or eleven lower jaws, and a skull, nearly perfect, 

 (of the Mastodon,) with a large quantity of bones, stated to belong 

 to nearly twenty different species, forming a variety and extent un- 

 rivalled, as follows : bones and teeth of fossil elephant, mastodon, 

 horse, ox, deer, and Megalonyx ; of the latter genus, parts of the 

 right lower jaw with four teeth, a separate tooth, clavicle, tibia ? and 

 perhaps other portions now for the first time discovered, as belonging 

 to that animal. (The report, relating to these bones, and presented 

 to the Lyceum, was subsequently published in this Journal.) 



September. — The President announced the death of their late 

 member. Dr. Samuel L. Miichill, whereupon a resolution, express- 

 ive of the feelings of the Lyceum, and of the loss which science in 



