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rington, John Price of Manchester, James Emerton, Charles 

 W. Palfray, have presented various coins and medals. N. 

 Silsbee deposited a valuable and interesting painting of the 

 Crowninshield wharf in Salem, as it was in 1806, executed by 

 the late George Kopes. From S. V. Shreve, a Chinese com- 

 pass. Messrs T. Downing, William Stearns and T. Prince 

 presented several lithographic views of our old buildings. Bows 

 and arrows in use by the Indian tribes westward of the 

 Mississippi river, presented by Wm. Messervy. Malay creis, 

 presented by C. F. Williams. From Edward Lander, an 

 autograph " Toast" of General LaFayette, as given by him at 

 Hamilton Hall, in this city, in 1824 ; also, the Duke of 

 Wellington's autograph, bearing the date London, Sept. 5, 

 1843. From M. A. Stickney, specimens of the old continental 

 money, as part of a suite of the bills of the various denomina- 

 tional value, issued by the several states and by Congress 

 during the Revolutionary period and that immediately preced- 

 ing ; to be completed, if possible, for the Institute. 



To THE Department op Natural History. Skull of a 

 Tapir, from Cayenne, from S. A. B. Fabens. Skull of a 

 Flamingo, from Mr. Wilson. Skull of Felis Serval or 

 Bushcat, of the Isle de Los, Western Africa, from E. F. Miller. 

 Skull of a species of Porcupine, of Western Africa, from 

 Joshua SaiFord. Skull of the Bengal Tiger, from Francis 0. 

 Pitman. Skins of several native birds, from C. L. Peirson. 

 A bird's nest, from Paraguay, by G. Upton. Egg of the Sand 

 Hill Crane, from W. P. Richardson. Chameleon, from 

 Zanzibar, by W. Ward. Specimens of Testudo tahulata, from 

 Para, by R. Wheatland and J. Manning. Testudo 7 sp : 

 from Zanzibar, by Geo. Perking. Large Alligator and several 

 species of southern Turtles, in fine preservation, from Rev. 

 Benja. Chase, of Natchez, Miss. Native species of Mollusca, 

 from S. Tufts. Southern species of Utiiones, from C. S. Hale, 

 of Mobile, Ala. A suite of the nonojjercidated land shells of 

 Jamaica, from Prof. C. B. Adams, of Amherst College. Shells 



