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to the Public, we hope hereafter to be able to communicate to 

 contributors the authentic names of any plants they may send 

 to us. This we conceive is the least return we can offer. 



Zoology. 

 We have been indebted in this department to the Rev. 

 Mr. White, of Singapore, for a collection of Fish from New 

 Holland, which will be noticed in our next number. We 

 are also under many obligations to Capt. Phayre, Principal 

 Assistant to the Commissioner of Arracan, for collections in 

 the same class, from Sandoway on the Malay Coast, in 

 which we find a new species of Murana distinguished by 

 moveable articulated teeth in the front of the jaws, and two 

 oblique rows of fixed teeth on the palate ; it forms the 

 type of a new genus Tharodontis. Also for two new genera 

 of the same order, having the heart situated far back behind 

 the opening to the gills, forming the types of a newly distin- 

 guished tribe of Apodal Fishes ; we have named one Ophi- 

 cardia, the other Ophisiernon ; both will appear in the next 

 number, in our promised paper on the Apodal Fishes of 

 Bengal. We have also to acknowledge our obligations for 

 small collections in this class, to Dr. Campbell, of Dar- 

 jeeling, and Capt. Guthrie, of the Engineers, which have 

 been received some time since ; all which we hope shortly 

 to notice in detail. 



An inquiry into the distinctive characteristics of the Aboriginal Race of 

 America, read at the Annual Meeting of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, Wednesday, 27th April, 1842. By Samuel 

 George Morton, m. d. 



At a meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History, held on 

 the 27th of April, it was unanimously 



Voted, That the thanks of the Society be presented to Dr. S. G. 

 Morton, for his eloquent and instructive address, delivered before this 



