160, Miscellanies. 



ponding Secretary read a communication from the Secretary of the 

 Physical Class of the Asiatic Society, at Calcutta, accompanying a 

 donation of " Asiatic Researches, Transactions of the Physical Class, 

 Part 2;" also, "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal," edited 

 by James Prinsep, F. R. S. ; also, " Gleanings in Science," Vol. Ill, 

 title page, preface and index. Thanks were voted for the same, 

 which the Corresponding Secretary was requested to communicate, 

 together with a set of the Annals. An invitation was received from 

 the President and Secretary of the American Lyceum, inviting the 

 attendance, by delegation, of the Lyceum of Natural History at their 

 annual meeting, 2d proximo. On motion, a committee was appoint- 

 ed to attend the meeting of the American Lyceum, as requested ; 

 committee composed of Drs. Torrey, Van Rensselaer and Gale. 

 Dr. G. W. Boyd presented a series of geological specimens from 

 the Cherokee country of Georgia. 



May 12. — The President, Joseph Delafield, in the chair. Visiter, 

 Mr. Whelpley, of Cleaveland, Ohio. The Librarian announced the 

 reception of the American Journal of Science and Arts, No. 53, and 

 Loudon's Journal, No. 38. Dr. Gale, from the committee appointed 

 to attend the meetings of the American Lyceum, reported upon the 

 transactions of that society at their late session, and which related 

 specially to the subject of education. Dr. Swift announced that Dr. 

 Adee, our corresponding member, who is about to visit South Amer- 

 ica, had expressed his readiness to collect objects of natural history 

 for the society, and had requested directions to guide him in the pur- 

 suit of them. Dr. Dekay was appointed a committee to prepare in- 

 structions for Dr. Adee. The President laid before the society a 

 list of a collection of books, plates, &;c., chiefly relating to natural 

 history, being from the library of Dr. Dekay ; also, a box of shells, 

 fish, nests and eggs of birds, &c., forwarded from South America, 

 by Mr. Reynolds, which are deposited with the Lyceum by Dr. De- 

 kay. Mr. Whelpley, of Cleaveland, Ohio, laid before the society 

 part of the skeleton of a fish, the species of which he was desirous 

 to identify ; referred to Mr. Cooper. Dr. James E. Dekay pre- 

 sented an extensive collection o( Fuci, finely preserved; an exten- 

 sive collection of plants, from the vicinity of Constantinople ; a suite 

 of colored casts to illustrate " Green's Monograph on American Tri- 

 lobites ;" a jar of fishes from the Bosphorus ; various articles, as 

 follows — five minerals, four trilobites, fossil crab, fossil shells from 

 Athens, specimen of Pterocera, box of plaster for casts ; also, a 



