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of specimens is in course of preparation through the activity of 

 H. K. Oliver, jr., and F. W. Putnam. Specimens of several 

 species of Southern turtles, of the garfish, &c., from B. Chase 

 of Natchez, Miss., and B. L. C. Wailes of Washington, Miss.; of 

 Boa Constrictor, from Para, by Henry B. Manning and 

 Joseph P. Pond ; of reptiles in spirits, from Zanzibar, by W. 

 G. Webb ; of the Vomer Brownii, by R. M. Chipman, of 

 Guilford, Conn.; and of other specimens of reptilia &c., by W. 

 Ward, E. F. Miller, N. Brown, jr., and F. W. Putnam. Some 

 specimens of the Articulata, by Abel Lawrence, F. Millet and 

 Charles Derby. Of the Mollusca and Radiata, specimens of 

 various species have been contributed by Messrs R. Wheatland, 

 Charles Derby, C. C. Osgood, W. H. A. Putnam, H. F. 

 Shepard, Mr. Anthony of Marblehead, E. A. Silsbee, Nelson 

 D. Prime, L. Cavalli, of Detroit, Mich., E. D. Kimball, F. W. 

 Putnam, C. J. Lee, John Daland and S. Tufts. 



The Herbarium has been increased by specimens of dried 

 plants, &G. &c., fromW. S. Rawson, of Harrisburg, Pa., S. P. 

 Webb, James Kimball, H. F. Shepard, James Buffington, J. 

 Linton Waters, P. Russell of Topsfield, and Geo. Choate. This 

 latter is deserving a passing notice, as consisting of a parcel of 

 specimens of medicinal plants, prepared and named by W. 

 Oakes, after his elegant mode. 



Specimens of Minerals, and species of Fossils from Ohio, 

 Northern Indiana, Belleville, New- Jersey, Cayuga Co., New- 

 York, Jackson, Maine, and from Pennsylvania, have been 

 received from Thomas Perkins, jr., W. S. Rawson, Eben B. 

 Phillips of Lynn, 0. C. Marsh of Lockport, New- York, 

 James Cook, Henry Mugford, W. H. Chase, C. L. Allen, L. 

 Cavalli of Detroit, Mich., Joseph B. Upton, James B. King, 

 T. C. Tannatt, Miss Eliza Ann Symonds, John Jones of San- 

 dusky, Ohio, William Gregory of Marblehead, F. W. Putnam 

 and C. J. Lee. The total number of donors to the Cabinets is 

 seventy-two. 



To the Library, the following additions have been made, 

 and these with few exceptions have been donations from socie- 



