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burg, Jan. 15, 1863, and the Societe Rojale de Liege, May 1, 18G3, 

 presenting their pubUcations. 



Mr. John Brown of Hamilton, Canada West, was elected 

 Corresponding Member. 



Dr. Henry M. Saville, and Messrs. Charles Stoddard, G. 

 Hubbard Davis, jun., Stuart M. Buck, F. H. Peabody, and 

 E. S. Atwood of Boston, and Mr. James O. Treat of Law- 

 rence, were elected Resident Members. 



DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



Oct. 21. 345 specimens of 108 species of fislies, by tlie Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, the species of wliicii were determined by Mr. F. W. Putnam. 

 A keg of alcoholic specimens, mostly reptiles, from Manchester, New Jersey, 

 by Mr. T. J. Whittemore. Specimens o? Matricaria inodora and Sechim rJwdiola 

 from North-eastern Maine, by Mr. A. E. Verrill. 



Nov. 4. A live alligator, from the mouth of the Mississippi, by Miss Langley. 

 Limestone filled with crinoids and other fossil remains, from Davenport, la., 

 by Mr. J. J. Dixwell. 



Nov. 18. A collection of shells, by Mrs. B. D. Greene. Two crania of the 

 musk-ox, bj' Mr. William Beetle. 



Dec. 2. A collection of specimens of iron-ore from Marquette, Mich., bv 

 Mr. Francis Kidder and Dr. John C. McKenzie. Coi-'als from the Florida Keys 

 and the Sandwich Islands, by Mr. S. H. Scudder. Two crania of LopMus 

 Americanus from Cape Cod, by Dr. B. J. Jeffries. Skins of Tamias 4i-vittatus, 

 Arvicola xanihognalhus (3), Siiermophilus Pnrrijl, and Mustela Americana, from 

 the Hudson-Bay Territory, and of Spermophilus Harrisii from Cape St. Lucas, 

 by the Smithsonian Institution. 



Dec. 16. Uria arra and Harelda glacialis from this vicinity, bj- Dr. B. J. 

 Jeffries. A collection of 250 birds from Europe and Africa, by Dr. Henry 

 Bryant. A full collection, 120 in all, of Kenngotts's Crystalline forms, by 

 Mr. W. T. Brigham. 



BOOKS RECEIVED DUEING THE QUARTER ENDING DEC. 31, 1863. 



Rules for Zoological Nomenclature. By H. E. Strickland. 12mo. Pamph. 

 Edinburgh, 1863. From the British Association for the Adoancemeni of Science. 



Remarks on the Genus Lutra. By George Barnston, Esq. 8vo. Pamph. 

 1863. From the Author. 



Salmon Fisheries of the St. Lawrence. By Richard Nettle. 12mo. Mont- 

 real, 1857. From the Author . 



Observations on certain North-American Neuroptera. By H. Hagen, M.D.; 

 translated from the French, with notes, etc., by Benj. D. Walsh. 8vo. Pamph. 

 1863. From B. D. Walsh, Esq. 



Remarks on some Characteristics of the Insect Fauna of the White Moun- 

 tains, N. H. By Samuel H. Scudder. 8vo. Pamph. Cambridge, 1863. 

 From the Author. 



On the Embryologj' of Asteracanthion beryllinus Ag., &c. By A. Agassiz. 

 Svo. Pamph. From the Author. 



