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bern, N. C, by Dr. S. Ejieeland ; a specimen of Gammarus, by Mr. T. J. 

 Whittemore. 



June 4. Copper pyrites from California, by Mr. T. J. "Whittemore ; a pair of 

 the horns of Bos caffer from the Cape of Good Hope ; a horn of the Sicilian 

 co-w; an Elaps from Eio Janeiro; a GecTco from Java; a beak of Xiphius and of 

 Pristes, by Mrs. Kent ; two specimens of an Orthopteron and an Asilus from 

 Lima, Peru, by Dr. C. T. Winslow; two slabs of sandstone, from Middletown, 

 Conn., containing fossil foot-prints, by Mr. Brainard; a Piiyqphis and a Scin- 

 cus, from Newbern, N. C, by Dr. S. Kneeland. 



June 18. Umhrina nebulosa from New Bedford, by Mr. William H. Taylor; 

 Ceratomia repentina from Boston, by Dr. J. C. White. 



BOOKS EECEIVED DURING THE QUAETER ENDING JUNE 30, 1862. 



United States Coast Survey. Report for 1860. ito. Washington. From 

 Prof. A. D. Bache. 



Sixth Annual Eeport of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. 

 Svo. 1861. From C. 3. EitchcocJc, Esq. 



Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston. 1861. 8vo. 

 From J. D. PMlbricTc, Esq. 



Annual of Scientific Discovery for 1862. 12mo. Boston. From D. A. 

 Wells, A. M., Editor. 



On the Rocks lying between the Carboniferous Limestone of the Lower 

 Peninsula of Michigan and the Limestones of the Hamilton Group. By Alex- 

 ander Winchell. 8vo. Pamph. New Haven, 1862. Frojn the Author. 



Manual of Elementary Geology. By Sir Charles Lyell. Svo. London, 1851. 

 From Dr. S. Dur'Jcee. 



Otia Conchologica. By Augustus A. Gould, M. D. 8vo. Boston, 1861. 

 From the Author. 



Researches on the Molecular Dissymmetry of Natural Organic Products. By 

 W. S. W. Ruschenberger, M. D. 8vo. Pamph. 1860. From the Author. 



M^moire sur la Mode de formation des Cones Volcaniques et des Crat^res. 

 Par G. Poulet Scrope. Svo. Pamph. Paris, 1860. From, the Atithor. 



History of the Fishes of Massachusetts. By D. Humphreys Storer. 4to. 

 pp. 195-240. From the Author. 



Description of Remains of a new Enaliosanrian from the Coal Formation of 

 Nova Scotia. By 0. C. Marsh, B. A. Svo. Pamph. 1S62. From the Author. 



Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Wisconsin. By James Hall 

 and J. D. Whitney. Svo. Vol. I. 1862. 



Geological Survey of New York. Paleontology. By James HaJI. 2 vols. 

 4to. Albany, 1859. From Prof. James Hall. 



Check List of the Shells of North America. Unionidse. By Isaac Lea, 

 LL. D. Svo. Pamph. 



Papers on the Unionidse, &c. By Isaac Lea, LL. D. Extracted from Pi"o- 

 ceedings of Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Svo. Pamph. 1862. 



Observations on the Genus Unio. By Isaac Lea, LL. D. 4to. Pamph. 

 Philadelphia, 1862. From the Author. 



On the Tides of the Coast of Ireland. Svo. Pamph. 

 Laws of Polarized Light. 8vo. Pamph. 

 Tides of Dublin Bay. Svo. Pamph. 



