May, 1889.] elliott society. 223: 



J^ooks Received. 



Journal of Comparative Medicine and Surgeiy : VoLX, No. 2. 



"West American Scientist, San Diego, Cal. : Nos. 34 and 42. 



Eoyal Society, London : Proceedings, No. 277. 



Essex Institute, Salem : Bulletin, Vol. XX, Nos. 4-6. 



Central Park Menagerie, New York, Keport. 



Academy of Natm-al Sciences, Davenport, Iowa : Proceedings, 

 Vol. V, part 1. 



Natui'forschenden GeseRschaft, Emden : Jahresberichte 72--73. 



Academie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres, Dijon : Memoirs, 

 Vol. X. 



Societa Adiiatica di Scienze Natm-ali, Trieste : Bollettino, Vol. 

 XI. 



Societe Linneenne clu Nord de la France, Amiens : Bulletin Men- 

 siiel, Jan.-Dec. 1888. 



Peof. L. K. Glbbes, President of the Society, sent for exhibition an auto- 

 graph of the late Eugene Chevreul, accompanied by the following interesting 

 note : 



Recent journals tiave announced the death of Eugene CHEVEEUii, the distin- 

 guished Chemist, on the 9th instant, at the advanced age of 102 years and 7 

 months. I have thought that it might interest the members of our Society to 

 see his autograph signature officially affised, more than fifty-two years since, to 

 a letter of thanks addressed to me by the Museum of Natural History of Paris. 



After taking the degree of M. D. in the Medical College of this City, in March, 

 1836, I sailed from New York for Havre in June of same year, in order to con- 

 tinue my studies in Paris, carrying with me a collection of many of the plants 

 of South Carolina, and another of marine and fresh- water shells of the Southern 

 Atlantic States. These specimens I exchanged with the French and German Nat- 

 uralists with whom I became acquainted in Paris, Dr. J. E. Holbrook, Professor 

 of Anatomy in our Medical College, had given me a letter of introduction to 

 M. Valenciennes, one of the Professors at the Museum of Natural History, his 

 former fellow student at the Garden of Plants, and through M. Valenciennes I 

 presented a part of my collection of shells and plants to the Museum of Natu- 

 ral Histoi-y, and from that Institution received many specimens of plants and 

 shells in exchange. My Herbarium has suffered from attacks of insects, but 

 many specimens stiU bear labels with the printed line " Ex Herb. Mus. Par.". 

 I also thus became personally acquainted with several of the Professors and 

 Aid^ at the Museum, among them Messrs. Valenciennes, Adrien de Jussieu, 

 GuiUemin, Dumeril, Bibron, and Adolphe Brongniart. Among the specimens 

 sent by me to the Museum, were those of two species not before received by the 



