Rathbun.} 14 [May 15, 
Mr. Arthur F. Gray, of Danversport, was elected an Asso- 
ciate Member. Prof. Dr. Carl Semper of Wiirzburg, and Dr. 
©. C. Abbot of Trenton, N. J., were elected Corresponding 
Members. 
The following resolution, offered by Mr. Chas. J. Sprague, 
was passed : 
“That the thanks of the Society be conveyed to Prof. Edward 
Tuckerman for the voluntary, generous, and invaluable service he 
has rendered it by elaborating and naming the Lichen-herbarium of 
Dr. Thomas Taylor, now forming a part of its collections; a service 
which no one in this country but he could have performed, and 
which gives to the herbarium an authentic value it could not other- 
wise have possessed.” 
The Custodian read a letter from Mr. Jona. Preston, the 
architect of the Museum, presenting a model and plans of 
the building. 
The thanks of the Society were voted to Messrs. H. O. 
Ryder, H. A. Spencer, C. F. Rice, and F. J.C. Swift, for dona- 
tions to the New England Collection of birds. 
General Meeting. May 15, 1878. 
The President, Mr. T. T. Bouvé, in the chair. Fifty- 
three persons present. 
The following papers were read : 
THe DEVONIAN BRACHIOPODA OF THE PROVINCE OF PaRA, BRA- 
zit. By RicHARD RATHBUN, LATE ASSISTANT GEOLOGIST TO 
THE GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION OF BRAzIL, PROFESSOR CH. 
Frep. Hartt, CHIEF. 
The present paper is an abridgement of a report made to His 
Excellency, the Minister of Agriculture of Brazil, in 1877, and con- 
stitutes a complete list of the Devonian Brachiopods at present 
known from the Lower Amazonian Valley, with descriptions of 
several new species, and notes on those previously described. This 
