BOSTON 



JOURNAL OF NATURAL HLSTORY 



CONTENTS. 



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 OflScers of the Society ------ 3 



Introduction -*------ 5 



Art. I. Address delivered before the Society at the opening 



of their Hall in Tremont Street. By Rev. F. W. 

 P. Greenwood ---.--.7 

 II. Remarks in defence of the Author of the " Birds of 



America." By Rev. John Bachman - - 15 



III. Description of a Gibbon. By Winslow Lewis, Jr. 



M, D. 32 



IV. CicindelcB of Massachusetts. By Augustus A.' Gould, 



M. D. 41 



V. Chiastolite or Made of Lancaster. By Charles T. 



Jackson, M. D, ----- • 55 



VI. Observations on a Shell in the Cabinet of the Boston 



Society of Natural History, supposed to be identi- 

 cal with the Murex Aruanus of Linnaeus and the 

 Fusus Proboscidiferus of Lamarck. By A. Binney G3 



List of Members ..---. 69 



Six Plates. 



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