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CONTENTS. 



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Art. I. 



11. 

 III. 

 IV. 



V. 



VI. 



VII 



VIII. 



IX. 



X. 



XI. 



XII, 



Page. 



Officers of the Society, - 3 



Introduction ,-'''"''' '^ 



Mdress delivered before the Society at the opening of 



their Hall in Tremont Street. By the Rev. F. W. P. 



GREEiSWOOU, ■" ' 



Remarks in Defence of the Author of the " Birds of 



America,'' By the Rev. John BachmaNj - - 15 

 Descrivtion of a Gibbon. By Winslow Lewis, Jr., 



M. D., ^ 



Cicindel(£ 'of Massachusetts. By Augustus A. Gould, 



M.D., rr." "^^ 



ChiastoUte, or Made of Lancaster. By Charles T. 



Jackson, M. D,y - • . - - oo 



Obserxations on a Shell in the Cabinet of the Boston 

 Society of Katiiral History, snjrposed to be identical 

 vntli the Murex Aruamis of Linnams and the Fvsiis 

 Prohosddifems of Lamarck. By A. Bin>ev, 

 M.D., - G3 



On certain Causes of Geological Change no7D in opera- 

 tion in Massachusetts. % Edward Hitchcock, 

 A. M.J Professor of Chemistry and Katural History^ 

 in Amherst College, ^^ 



Emimeration of Plants growing spontaneously around 

 Wilmington, Korth Carolimi. with Remarks on same 

 Kew and Obscure Species. By Moses A. Curtis, 

 AM. --------82 



Upon the^ Economy of some American Species of Hispa. 



By T. W. Harris, M. D,, ... - 141 



Descriptions of New North American Coleopterous 

 Insects, and Observations on some already described. 



J5y Thomas Say, ■■"'*/ ^^^^ 



Description of a new Ammal belonging to tJie Arach- 

 nides of Latreille ; di^corered in the Sea along the 

 Shores of the Keic South Shetland Islands. By 

 James Eights, M. D,, - - - - - 203 



Chfviicul Amlysis of Chrysocolla from the Holqvm 

 Cojtper Mines, near Gihara, Cuba. By C. T. 

 Jackson, JVf. D. ------ ^'b 



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