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The African Repository and Colonial Journal. Vol. XXI. May, 

 1845. No. 5. 8vo. — From the American Colonization So- 

 ciety. 



Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the Ame- 

 rican Philosophical Society. Vol. III. Part I. Philadelphia, 

 184.3. Svo. Thirty Copies. — From Henry D. Gilpin, Esq. 



On the Anthracite and Bituminous Coal Fields in China; the System 

 of Mining, and the Prices of Coal, and Labour in its Production, 

 and Transportation to Pekin. By Richard C. Taylor. Phila- 

 delphia, 1845. Svo. — From the Author. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania. Third 

 Series. Vol. IX. May, 1845. No. 5. Svo.— From Dr. R. M. 

 Patterson. 



A System of Geography, Ancient and Modern. By James Playfair, 

 D.D., F.R.S., &c. &c. In Six Volumes, with Folio Atlas. 

 Edinburgh, 1808—1814. 4to. 



An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Com- 

 merce, from the Earliest Accounts. By Adam Anderson. In 

 Four Volumes. London, 1801. 4to. 



[The two last mentioned works were deposited in the So- 

 ciety's Library, some years ago, by Charles N. Bancker, Esq., 

 who now presents them to the Society.] 



On the 19th of February, 1817, the late John G. Biddle, 

 Esq., deposited in the Library of the Society, several valuable 

 works, a list of which is recorded in the first volume of our 

 Transactions, New Series, page 437. These works are now 

 presented to the Society by Mrs. Mary Biddle, the relict of 

 the deceased. 



The Committee on Mr. Lea's paper, entitled "Descriptions 

 ^f New Fresh Water and Land Shells," reported in favour of 

 its publication in the Transactions of the Society, which was 

 ordered accordingly. 



In this paper Mr. Lea observed that he had now added twenty- 

 three new species to the already long list of the Melanice, his last 

 paper containing fifty-seven. He also adds six to the interesting 

 genus Schizostoma, now making ten species in all, and twenty-six to 

 the family Naiades. He gives an alphabetic list of all the described 

 species of the genus Melania, making three hundred and eighty in 



