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week of that month, generally about the middle of the week ; its north- 

 ward progress being apparently hastened or retarded by the mildness of 

 the season. They seem always to wait for the flowering of a species 

 of horse-chesnut, called here, the Buckeye, from the fancied likeness 

 of its fruit to the eyes of a deer. The bright red blossoms of this tree 

 supply the nourishment most attractive to these birds, whose arrival had 

 been looked for, the very day after I came. Strange to say, one of them, 

 the avant-courier of the feathered host, actually appeared and next 

 morning, (May 7, 1846,) hundreds were seen and heard, flitting and 

 humming over our heads." 



INSECTS. 



Annals of the Lyceum, fyc, vol. 4, p. 141. Monograph of the species 

 of Psamichus, inhabiting the United States, with descriptions of two 

 new genera belonging to the family Carabica. By John L. LeConte. 

 Read November 9, 1845. 



finals of the Lyceum, fyc, vol. 4, p. 173. Descriptive catalogue of 

 the Geodephagous coleoptera, inhabiting the United States, east of the 

 Rocky Mountains. By John L. LeConte. Read May 25, 1846. 



BOTANY. 



Sillimaris Journal, new series, vol. 7, p. 167. Notes on some Che- 

 nopodiacaoe, growing spontaneously about the city of New- York. By 

 John Carey. 



Sillimari's Journal, new series, vol. 8, p. 347. Observations on Amer- 

 ican species of the genus Potamogeton, by Edward Tuckerman, A. M. 



MINERALOGY. 



Annals of the New-York Lyceum, vol. 4, p. 76. Description of the 

 Vauquelinite, a rare ore of Chromium, in the United States. By John 

 Torrey, M. D. Read April 27, 1835. 



(Noticed by Dr. L. C. Beck, in his Mineralogy of New- York.) 



