20 PROCEEDINGS OP THE [Fcb. 1860. 



are Hydroid Polypi related to Ilydractinia, only confirmed him in 

 the view he had suggested of the relation of Ilydractinia to the 

 Velellidae.'^ 



Specimen copies of Prof. L. R. Gibbes's "Rules for the Accentu- 

 ation of Names in Natural History," were received from the printers. 



FEBRUARY 15th, 1860. 



Vice-President W. Wragg Smith in the Chair. 



Prof. McCrady made a communication in review of Darwin's 

 "Theory of the Origin of Species." 



APRIL 2d, 1860. 

 President L. R. Gibbes in the Chair. 



Contributions to the Library. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, part 25, 1857 ; 

 volume for 1858, complete : and parts 1 and 2 of volume for 1859. 



Ein Gedenkblatt fiir Alexander von Humboldt, Moskau, 1859. 



Notice of Fossils from the Permian Strata of Texas and New 

 Mexico, by B. F. Shumard, M. D. From the Author. 



* Proceedings Elliott Society, Vol. I, p. 141. 



