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3. A miscellaneous collection of bones fi-om the Boston 

 Marine Society. 



4. A skull and nearly perfect skeleton of the Gorilla, from 

 the Canna River, presented by Dr. Otis, of the navy. 



5. An exceedingly valuable collection of bodies of animals, 

 numbering twenty-six, chiefly the large cats, suffocated at 

 the bui'ning of the menagerie in Portland Street. 



The Curator of Entomology reported the almost com- 

 pleted re-arrangement of the Coleoptera and Orthoptera of 

 the Harris collection, and stated that the Hemiptera had 

 been placed in the hands of Mr. Uhler, of Baltimore, for 

 determination preliminary to re-arrangement ; and portions 

 of the Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera were being investi- 

 gated by Mr. Norton, of Farmington, Connecticut, and Mr. 

 Packard, of Brunswick, Maine. 



The Curator of Ethnology announced that the collections, 

 in reference to which the curatorship had been recently 

 founded, included specimens of the arts and manufactures of 

 North-west America, not only of the coast tribes near Puget 

 Sound, but of those living far north ; also, of the people of 

 the Kingsmill Islands, of other islands in the Pacific, and of 

 the East Indies proper ; being monumental evidence of the 

 . conditions of these vai'ious people, when first visited by ships 

 from the North Atlantic. These were all presented by the 

 Boston Marine Society. 



The Curators of Mineralogy, Botany, Ichthyology, and 

 Herpetology, reported the safe transportation of their respec- 

 tive collections to the building now temporarily occupied, 

 and their present satisfactory condition. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from 



The Societe Royale de Zoologie k Amsterdam, and the Leeds Lit- 

 erary and Philosophical Society, acknowledging the receipt of the 

 Society's publications ; from the Konigliche Gesellschaft der Wissens- 

 chaften zu Gottingen, February 12, 1862, acknowledging the same 

 and presenting its own publications ; and from the Societe Royale de 

 Zoologie h Amsterdam, presenting its Memoires. 



The Nominating Committee reported a list of officers for 

 the ensuing year. 



