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of the Pileated Woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus (rare specimens); by Dr. Cor- 

 nelius Kollock, of Cheraw, S. C. A Fish and the Saws of two species of Pristis; 

 by Dr. S. Durkee. 



Oct. 15th. A collection of Insects from Chili; by C. W. Blake, Esq. A speci- 

 men of Salamandra salmonea; by Dr. J. N. Borland. Copper and Silver Ores, 

 from Lake Superior; by Dr. S. Kneeland, Jr. 



Nov. 5th. A specimen of Amaranthus pumilus, from Sachuest Beach, New- 

 port, E. I.; by Dr. Charles Pickering. European Nightingale, Philomela luscinia ; 

 by Dr. J. N. Borland. A piece of live oak, taken in the year 1844 from the 

 wreck of the British Frigate Merlin, which was sunk in the Eiver Delaware in 

 1777; by R. G. Parker, Esq. 



Nov. 19th. Nest and eggs of Anna Humming-bird; five eggs of California 

 Quail ; two of Chordestes grammaca ; four of Quiscalus Mexicanus ; two of 

 Birundo bicolor ; one of Hirundo lunifrons ; one of Garrulus Califomianus ; three 

 of Sturnella neglecla ; one of Muscicapa verticalis ; five of Agelaius gubernator ; one 

 of Melanerpes Jbrmicivorus ; two of Ectopistes marginellus ; one of Buteo calurus ; 

 one of Buteo montanus ; one of Buteo insignatus ; collected in California, by Mr. 

 E. Samuels. 



Dec. 3d. A Fish, probably an undescribed species, belonging to the family with 

 Scopelus, taken off the eastern coast of Newfoundland, and a foetal Porpoise; 

 by Capt. N. E. Atwood. Specimens of Helix minutissima, Lea, from Portland, 

 Me. ; by E. S. Morse, Esq., of Portland. A Fossil Shell, Spirifer Niagarensis "! 

 from Delaware, Canada West; by Capt. N. E. Atwood. Mineral concretions, 

 from Tuftonboro', N. H., said by Dr. C. T. Jackson to be composed of black 

 oxide of manganese imbedding sand, in the form of globular, or nearly globular 

 balls; by Wm. Haley, Esq., of Tuftonboro, N. H. Prairie Dog, Arctomys Ludo- 

 vicianus, Ord., from Nebraska; by Dr. F. V. Hayden. Mus Michiganiensis, old 

 and young, and Sciurus magnicaudatus or rubricaudatus, (Fox Squirrel,) from 

 Illinois ; by Eobert Kennicott, Esq. 



Dec. 17th. A Fossil Tooth of a Moose, from Gratiot Lake, near Lake Superior ; 

 by 0. A. Farwell, Esq. Skull of Musquash, Fiber Zibethicus, Cuv., with one of 

 the upper incisor teeth elongated and coiled in a spiral form ; by Mr. Fletcher. 

 A globular concretion of grass, said to have been formed by the action of waves 

 upon the sea-shore ; by Dr. H. R. Storer. 



BOOKS KECEIVED DURING THE QUARTER ENDING DEC. 31, 1856. 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Vol. Vin. 4to. Washington, 1856. 

 From the Smithsonian Institution. 



American Geological History. James D. Dana. 8vo. Pamph. New Haven, 

 1856, From the Author. 



Ecole Polytechnique. Cours de Gdologie Paleontologique. Jules Marcou. 

 8vo. Pamph. Zurich, 1856. From the Author. 



Inauguration of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, Aug. 28, 1856. 8vo. 

 Pamph. From J. E. Hickcox. 



Denkrede auf Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs. F. von Eobell. 4to. Pamph. 

 Miinchen, 1856. From the Author. 



