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Monday, March 20. Regular meeting. 

 Vice President Goodell in the chair. 

 Letters were read from : 



Lyceum of Natural History of New York, acknowledging the receipt 

 of publications : Boston Society of Natural History, acknowledging 

 the receipt of a collection of plants, collected in Zanzibar, by Caleb 

 Cooke : Amos Noyes of Newburyport, accepting Membership. 



Donations to the Library and Museum were announced. 



A. C. Goodell Jr. read a paper entitled the " Cavalier 

 and the Puritan." This will be published in a separate 

 form. 



John Daland of Salem, and Eben F. Stone of Newbury- 

 port were elected Resident Members. 



Additions to the Museum and Library during January, 

 February, and March, 1865. 



TO THE NATURAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT. 



BV DONATION. 



Allen*, Francis R., Hamilton, Fresh specimen of Bald Eagle, Hali- 

 tztus leucocephalus , shot in Hamilton, Jan. 20. 



Allen, J. A., Cambridge. Specimens of a Red and of a Black species 

 of Ant, and the pupa of the Black species ; taken from an army of the 

 Red species, Springfield, Mass., July 30, 1864. 



Babe'idge, Chas. H. Chalcopyrite from Cheticamp, N. S. 



Babcock, A. L., Sherborn, Mass. 9 specimens, 7 species, Insects ; 

 Skin of Sciurus hudsonivs ; skeletons and parts of skeletons of 3 species 

 of native Birds; specimen of Anodonta fluviatilis, from Sherborn. 



Buttkick, S. B. Portion of the jaw of a Porpoise. Water Beetle, Dy- 

 tiscus sp., from South Salem. 



Bolles, Rev. E. C, Portland, Me. 7 specimens of Anodonta edentula 

 Lea, A. Ferussaciana Lea, Unio iris Lea and U. calceolus Lea from Mil- 

 waukee, Wis. 3 specimens Mya arenaria from the Postpleiocene at 

 Gardiner, Me. 3 specimens Coleoptera from Africa. 



Cary, Geo. A. 2 specimens of Tellena from Turk's Island. 



Chamberlain, James A. 2 Holothurians, dry. 



Chicago Academy of Natural Sciences, Chicago, 111. Skins of 8 spe- 

 cies of Mammals and 64 species of Birds from the West and North. 36 

 species, 51 specimens of Western Bird's eggs. 



Davis, Charles, Beverly. Egg of an African Ostrich. 



