LXXI 



Portland Society of Natural History. Proceedings, vol. 1, pages 97 to 

 128 incl. 



Publishers. North American Review for July, 1864. 



Quebec Literary and Philosophical Society. Transactions, New Se- 

 ries, vol. i, Nos. 1 and 2. 



Wilmington (Del.) Institute. Annual Report April, 1864, 8vo, pamph. 



Monday, October 10. Evening meeting. 



The President, A. Huntington, in the chair. 



Becords of previous meeting read and donations to the 

 Museum and Library were announced. 

 Letters were read from the following : 



Chas. H. Lake, of Little Rock, Arkansas; J. A. Allen, of Springfield; W. 

 H. Dall, of Marquette Co. Mich., relating to donations of specimens: J. H. 

 Hickcox, of the New York State Libraiy, Albany ; S. J. Young, Librarian 

 of Bowdoiu College ; Secretary of the American Philosophical Society, Phil- 

 adelphia, relating to exchanges of publications : Prof. S. F. Baird ; J. H. 

 Thompson, of New Bedford ; Sam'l Clarke, of Milwaukee, Wis., relating to 

 the Naturalists'' Directory : Miss Lucy Treadwell, of Salem ; Miss A. L 

 -Coffin, of Newbury ; J. E. Oliver, of Lynn ; J. W. Young, of Worcester ; S. 

 Tenney, of Cambridge ; James Lewis, of Mohawk, N. Y. ; Rev. E. C. Bolles, 

 of Portland, on business matters : A. L. Babcock, of Sherborn ; Dr. A. S. 

 Packard Jr., of Brunswick, Me. ; Theo. Gill, of Washington ; W. Hoxie, 

 of Newburyport, relating to exchange of specimens. 



Albert B. Russell, and Miss Lucy Treadwell, of Salem, 

 and Theodore Attwill, of Lynn, having been nominated 

 at a previous meeting were elected Resident Members. 



Mr. Putnam communicated a paper from Mr. Alpheus 

 Hyatt Jr., entitled " Remarks on the Polyzoa of New Eng- 

 land " In this paper, which was referred to the committee 

 on publication, Mr. Hyatt describes and figures several 

 new species of Cristatella and JPlumatella from Cambridge, 

 Mass., and Norway, Me. For these species he proposes 

 the names of C. qpkidioidea, P. hyalina and P. pennisseioas- 

 seensis. Mr. Hyatt also describes the anatomy of the 

 genera Cristatella and Peetinatella and discusses their 

 relations, as naked Polyzoa, to the remaining genera of 

 the sub-order Lophopea. 



