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Dr. Mitchill read a paper on superfcetation. He read also 

 an account, (with drawings,) of a moluscous animal from 

 the Pacific, not hitherto described, and which he names 

 Quadripennis Pictus. 



Mr, McAuley, of Herkimer, presented a suite of specimens 

 illustrating the mineralogy and geology of the valley of the 

 Mohawk. 



Capt. Sloat, U. S. N. presented Asterias Helianthus from 

 Chili, fossil casts from Gallipagos Islands, a series of volcanic 

 minerals from the island of Juan Fernandez, and minerals 

 and fossils from Antigua. 



Capt. Leconte presented Testudo reticulata from Georgia. 



July.— Mr. Cooper read a paper on the habitat of the 

 schizea pusella. (See An. of the Lye. vol. ii. p. 266.) 



Mr. Barnes offered some remarks on the Proteus of the 

 Lakes, and presented specimens of steatite containing crys- 

 tallized bitter spar, from Marlborough, Vermont. 



Dr. Mitchill read a paper on a. fossil skull, from Folly land- 

 ing, Accomac county, Virginia. 



The corresponding secretary read a letter from Mr. Thos. 

 Dixon, accompanying a splendid collection of minerals, from 

 Cumberland and Derbyshire, England. 



Capt. Sloat, U. S. N. presented "Certaine testimonies 

 concerning King Arthure, and his conquests of the north 

 regions, taken out of the histories of the kings of Brittaine, 

 written by Galfridus monamutensis, newly printed at Hedle- 

 berg, 1587." This copy was obtained at Pitcairne's Island, 

 where it had been saved from the English frigate Bounty, 

 Capt. Bligh. 



An abstract was read of " a memoir on the posterior mem« 

 bers of ophidian reptiles,'''' by Prof. Mayer. 



Prof. J. A. Smith read a paper on the Syren Intermedia. 



Mr. Cooper read a paper on the osteology of the megathe- 

 rium, from Georgia. (See An. of the Lye. vol. ii. p. 207.) 



Dr. De Kay read " observations on a fossil skull, in the 

 Gabinet of the Lyceum, belonging to the genus Bos, from the 

 banks of the Mississippi." (See An. of the Lye. vol. ii. p. 280.) 



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