Atwood.] 220 [February 16, 



which I had sent him, Dr. Arnott informed me he had found the fol- 

 lowing species: C ymatopleura elliptica, Navicula trinodis, and gibher- 

 ulcij Surirella craticula, Denticula obtusa, Epithemia zebrina, Cocconeis 

 Tkwaitesii, Achnanthes venlricosa, Cyclotellajrotula and operculata, Or- 

 thosira orichalcea, Gomphonema tencllum, and another intermediate 

 between dichotomum and intricatum^ most likely the latter. 



February 16, 1870. 



Vice President, Mr. T. T. Bouve, in the chair. Forty persons 



present. 



Capt. N. E. Atwood presented, on behalf of Capt. Gideon 

 Bowley, a broken skull of a walrus taken from a depth of 

 several fathoms in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Capt. Atwood 

 stated that tusks of this animal were found, not infrequently, 

 on the beaches of the Magdalen Islands, and the living ani- 

 mals were reported by seafaring men to have been seen 

 there one hundred years ago. 



The Secretary communicated the following vote passed at 

 a recent meeting of the Trustees of the Museum of Compar- 

 ative Zoology. 



Besolved, — That the money presented to the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology by the Boston Society of Natural 

 History to found the " Humboldt Scholarship," be gratefully 

 accepted under the conditions laid down by the vote of the 

 Council of said Society, at a meeting held November 17, 

 1869 ; and that the Secretary be directed to return thanks for 

 this liberal gift. 



